Divergent microsatellite evolution in the human and chimpanzee lineages

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2523-2526

  Gáspári, Zoltán ^a   Ortutay, Csaba ^b   Tóth, Gábor ^c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Comparative genomics; Genome; Human; Microsatellites; Molecular evolution; Tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PAN;

EID: 34248598485     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.04.073     Document Type: Article

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