Preventing dangerous nonsense: Selection for robustness to transcriptional error in human genes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Cusack, Brian P ^a,b   Arndt, Peter F ^a   Duret, Laurent ^c   Crollius, Hugues Roest ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOUSE; MULTI EXON GENE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; SINGLE EXON GENE; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION ROBUSTNESS; ANIMAL; CODON; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENETICS; GENOME; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RNA STABILITY;

EUKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID; HISTONE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CODON; CODON, NONSENSE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; RNA STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80055073378     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002276     Document Type: Article

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