Lowly expressed human MicroRNA genes evolve rapidly

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1195-1198

  Liang, Han ^a   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

MicroRNA expression; Selective pressure; Sequence divergence; Spatial clustering

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; CLONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 66249117657     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp053     Document Type: Article

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