The promise and limitations of population exomics for human evolution studies

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Tennessen, Jacob A ^a   O'Connor, Timothy D ^a   Bamshad, Michael J ^a,b   Akey, Joshua M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EVOLUTION; EXOME; EXON; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXOME; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80052845448     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-9-127     Document Type: Article

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