Natural selection on human microRNA binding sites inferred from SNP data

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1452-1456

  Chen, Kevin ^a   Rajewsky, Nikolaus ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CIS REGULATORY SITE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN GENOME; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA BINDING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 33751520430     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1910     Document Type: Article

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