Human piRNAs are under selection in Africans and repress transposable elements

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3061-3067

  Lukic, Sergio ^a,b   Chen, Kevin ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africans; piRNAs; population genetics; selective constraint; transposable elements

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA;

AFRICA; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; PAN;

EID: 80155146885     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr141     Document Type: Article

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