The impact of recombination on nucleotide substitutions in the human genome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Duret, Laurent ^a   Arndt, Peter F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; CROSSING OVER; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DENATURATION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN GENOME; ISOCHORE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MACACA; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CROSSES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; ISOCHORES; MACACA; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

EID: 44949198268     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000071     Document Type: Article

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