Selective and mutational patterns associated with gene expression in humans: Influences on synonymous composition and intron presence

Genetics

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1293-1304

  Comeron, Josep M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; CPG ISLAND; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INTRON; LIVER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION ASSOCIATED MUTATIONAL BIASES;

AMINO ACIDS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 3843068862     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.026351     Document Type: Article

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