Hypermutability of genes in Homo sapiens due to the hosting of long mono-SSR

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 111-121

  Loire, Etienne ^a,b,c,d,e   Praz, Françoise ^a,f   Higuet, Dominique ^a,b,d,e   Netter, Pierre ^a,b,c   Achaz, Guillaume ^a,b,d,e  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e NONE   (France)

^f CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Homo sapiens; Microsatellites; Mutability; SSR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; DNA INTEGRATION; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA TRANSPORT; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT;

EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EUKARYOTA; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 57849143868     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn230     Document Type: Article

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