Directional and balancing selection in human beta-defensins

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Hollox, Edward J ^a   Armour, John A L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BETA DEFENSIN; ISOLEUCINE; THREONINE; VALINE;

ARTICLE; BETA DEFENSIN GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; ANIMAL; BASE MISPAIRING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MACACA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BETA-DEFENSINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MACACA; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 43149115581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-113     Document Type: Article

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