About the X-to-Y Gene Conversion Rate

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 495-497

  Cruciani, Fulvio ^a   Trombetta, Beniamino ^a   Macaulay, Vincent ^b   Scozzari, Rosaria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; LETTER; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

BIOSTATISTICS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 77649210714     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.01.033     Document Type: Letter

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