Overdominance in the human genome and olfactory receptor activity

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 997-1001

  Alonso, Santos ^a   López, Saioa ^a   Izagirre, Neskuts ^a   De La Rúa, Concepción ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; HapMap; Heterozygote advantage; Olfactory receptors; Overdominance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PARALOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; HETEROZYGOTE; PSEUDOGENE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 50949115276     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn049     Document Type: Article

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