Both size and GC-content of minimal introns are selected in human populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Dapeng ^a,b   Yu, Jun ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EUROPE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SIZE; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY; BASE PAIRING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INDEL MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; INTRONS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79952760686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017945     Document Type: Article

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