The evolutionary significance of cis-regulatory mutations

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 206-216

  Wray, Gregory A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CIS ISOMER; COGNITION; DIET; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 33847057226     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2063     Document Type: Review

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