Genomic selective constraints in murid noncoding DNA

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1912-1923

  Gaffney, Daniel J ^a,b   Keightley, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; SPACER DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; INTRON; MURIDAE; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

MAMMALIA; MURIDAE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; GENOME; INTRONS; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MURIDAE; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33751374466     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020204     Document Type: Article

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