Methods for incorporating the hypermutability of CpG dinucleotides in detecting natural selection operating at the amino acid sequence level

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2275-2284

  Suzuki, Yoshiyuki ^a   Gojobori, Takashi ^a   Kumar, Sudhir ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CpG dinucleotide; Hypermutability; Natural selection; Nonsynonymous substitution; Synonymous substitution

Indexed keywords

CPG DINUCLEOTIDE; DINUCLEOTIDE; PROTAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; GENE MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; SIMULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

PRIMATES;

EID: 70349916085     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp133     Document Type: Article

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