Biased clustered substitutions in the human genome: The footprints of male-driven biased gene conversion

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1420-1430

  Dreszer, Timothy R ^a   Wall, Gregory D ^b   Haussler, David ^a,c   Pollard, Katherine S ^b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FUSION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE; TIME FACTORS;

PAN;

EID: 34948890647     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6395807     Document Type: Article

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