Human Y Chromosome Base-Substitution Mutation Rate Measured by Direct Sequencing in a Deep-Rooting Pedigree

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1453-1457

  Xue, Yali ^a   Wang, Qiuju ^b   Long, Quan ^a   Ng, Bee Ling ^a   Swerdlow, Harold ^a   Burton, John ^a   Skuce, Carl ^a   Taylor, Ruth ^a   Abdellah, Zahra ^a   Zhao, Yali ^b   MacArthur, Daniel G ^a   Quail, Michael A ^a   Carter, Nigel P ^a   Yang, Huanming ^c   Tyler Smith, Chris ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^c BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

PAN;

EID: 69949140292     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.032     Document Type: Article

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