Genesis of ancestral haplotypes: RNA modifications and reverse transcription-mediated polymorphisms

Human Immunology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Steele, Edward J ^a,b   Williamson, Joseph F ^a,b   Lester, Susan ^a,c   Stewart, Brent J ^a,b   Millman, John A ^a   Carnegie, Pat ^a,b   Lindley, Robyn A ^a   Pain, Geoff N ^a   Dawkins, Roger L ^a,b  

^a CY O'Connor ERADE Village Foundation   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Polymorphic frozen block; RT mediated gene conversion; SNP clusters; Somatic hypermutation; Transcription factories; Transcription coupled repair

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; INOSINE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

DNA SEQUENCE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EDITING; RNA SYNTHESIS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

EID: 79651470882     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2010.12.005     Document Type: Review

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