Negative correlation of G+C content at silent substitution sites between orthologous human and mouse protein-coding sequences

DNA Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 135-140

  Takahashi, Naoki ^a   Nakashima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

G+C content variation; Human mouse orthologs; Nucleotide substitutions in synonymous codons

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HUMANS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THYMINE DNA GLYCOSYLASE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33750909997     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: 13402838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsl007     Document Type: Article

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