Locating protein-coding sequences under selection for additional, overlapping functions in 29 mammalian genomes

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1916-1928

  Lin, Michael F ^a,b   Kheradpour, Pouya ^a,b   Washietl, Stefan ^b   Parker, Brian J ^c   Pedersen, Jakob S ^c,e   Kellis, Manolis ^a,b,d  

^a USA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; CODON, INITIATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EXONS; GENE ORDER; GENES, BRCA1; GENOME; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION RATE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RNA SPLICING; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80055024376     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.108753.110     Document Type: Article

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