An effective method for detecting gene conversion events in whole genomes

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1281-1297

  Hsu, Chih Hao ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Hardison, Ross C ^a,b   Green, Eric D ^b   Miller, Webb ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

algorithms; computational molecular biology; evolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

PRIMATES;

EID: 77958036731     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2010.0103     Document Type: Article

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