High divergence in primate-specific duplicated regions: Human and chimpanzee Chorionic Gonadotropin Beta genes

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Hallast, Pille ^a   Saarela, Janna ^b   Palotie, Aarno ^c,d,e   Laan, Maris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

PAN; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 47849111866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-195     Document Type: Article

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