Exploiting CpG hypermutability to identify phenotypically significant variation within human protein-coding genes

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 938-949

  Ying, Hua ^a,b   Huttley, Gavin ^a  

^a Australian National University   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Codon substitution; CpG; Natural selection; Selection mutation balance

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES;

5 METHYLCYTOSINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CODON; CPG ISLAND; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DISEASES; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; YEAST;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ANIMALS; CODON; CPG ISLANDS; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DISEASE; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YEASTS;

EID: 84856297485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr021     Document Type: Article

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