Increased constraints on MC4R during primate and human evolution

Human Genetics

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 633-647

  Hughes, David A ^a   Hinney, Anke ^b   Brumm, Harald ^c   Wermter, Anne Kathrin ^d   Biebermann, Heike ^c   Hebebrand, Johannes ^b   Stoneking, Mark ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ALOUATTA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARAB; ARTICLE; BABOON; CAT; CAUCASIAN; CELL STRAIN COS7; CHICKEN; CHIMPANZEE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DOG; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; ELEPHANT; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GOLDFISH; GOOSE; GORILLA; GUINEA PIG; HEDGEHOG; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORSE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MACACA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARMOSET; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; OPOSSUM; ORANG UTAN; ORYZIAS; PALESTINE; PLATYPUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; RACCOON DOG; RAT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCANDENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER MONKEY; SQUIRREL; SWINE; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; CYCLIC AMP; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OBESITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION;

PAN; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58049103167     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-008-0591-8     Document Type: Article

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