Positive selection and gene conversion drive the evolution of a brain-expressed snoRNAs cluster

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2563-2571

  Ogorelkova, Miroslava ^a,e   Navarro, Arcadi ^b,c,d   Vivarelli, Francesca ^a   Ramirez Soriano, Anna ^c   Estivill, Xavier ^a,b,c,d  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b CeGen Barcelona   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB)   (Spain)

^e Gendiagexe   (Spain)

Author keywords

CNV; Gene conversion; HBII 52; Nucleotide diversity; Positive selection; SnoRNAs

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE HBII 52; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BRAIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 73349089949     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp173     Document Type: Article

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