Linkage disequilibrium extends across putative selected sites in FOXP2

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2181-2184

  Ptak, Susan E ^a   Enard, Wolfgang ^a   Wiebe, Victor ^a   Hellmann, Ines ^b,c   Krause, Johannes ^a   Lachmann, Michael ^a   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Evolution; FOXP2; Human; Linkage disequilibrium; Selection

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 70349923260     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp143     Document Type: Article

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