Evolution of genomic sequence inhomogeneity at mid-range scales

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 513-

  Prakash, Ashwin ^a,b   Shepard, Samuel S ^a,b   He, Jie ^a   Hart, Benjamin ^b   Chen, Miao ^b   Amarachintha, Surya P ^c   Mileyeva Biebesheimer, Olga ^d   Bechtel, Jason ^a   Fedorov, Alexei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA CONTENT; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE DELETION;

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; MAMMALIA; PAN;

EID: 70749131442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-513     Document Type: Article

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