Human recombination rates are increased around accelerated conserved regions - Evidence for continued selection?

Bioinformatics

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1441-1443

  Freudenberg, Jan ^a   Fu, Ying Hui ^a   Ptáček, Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HOMINID; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH;

HOMINIDAE; TAKIFUGU;

EID: 34547891890     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm137     Document Type: Article

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