Complex signatures of locus-specific selective pressures and gene conversion on human growth hormone/chorionic somatomammotropin genes

Human Mutation

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1181-1193

  Sedman, Laura ^a,c   Padhukasahasram, Badri ^b   Kelgo, Piret ^a   Laan, Maris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^c GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chorionic somatomammotropin; CSH; Gene conversion; hGH; Human growth hormone; Primate specific duplicated genes; Resequencing

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; PLACENTA LACTOGEN; PROTEIN CSH1; PROTEIN CSH2; PROTEIN GH1; PROTEIN GH2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PLACENTAL LACTOGEN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 47849117740     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.20767     Document Type: Article

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