The expansion of amino-acid repeats is not associated to adaptive evolution in mammalian genes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cruz, Fernando ^a,b   Roux, Julien ^a,b   Robinson Rechavi, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOME; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 74549212521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-619     Document Type: Article

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