Evidence for hitchhiking of deleterious mutations within the human genome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Chun, Sung ^a   Fay, Justin C ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; DELETERIOUS MUTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEOPLASM; SELECTIVE SWEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; METABOLIC DISEASES; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 80052310539     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002240     Document Type: Article

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