Cryptic variation in the human mutation rate

PLoS Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 0226-0232

  Hodgkinson, Alan ^a   Ladoukakis, Emmanuel ^a,b   Eyre Walker, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CPG ISLAND; CRYPTIC (ERA); GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PAN;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 61349141884     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000027     Document Type: Article

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