Similarity in recombination rate estimates highly correlates with genetic differentiation in humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Laayouni, Hafid ^a   Montanucci, Ludovica ^a   Sikora, Martin ^a   Melé, Marta ^a   Dall'Olio, Giovanni Marco ^a   Lorente Galdos, Belén ^a   McGee, Kate M ^b   Graffelman, Jan ^c   Awadalla, Philip ^d   Bosch, Elena ^a   Comas, David ^a   Navarro, Arcadi ^a,e,f   Calafell, Francesc ^a   Casals, Ferran ^a,d   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^f National Institute for Bioinformatics INB   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; POPULATION DENSITY;

PAN;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DENSITY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 79953138595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017913     Document Type: Article

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