Ongoing GC-biased evolution is widespread in the human genome and enriched near recombination hot spots

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 614-626

  Katzman, Sol ^a   Capra, John A ^b   Haussler, David ^a,c   Pollard, Katherine S ^b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

1000 Genomes Project; Biased gene conversion; Fixation bias; Polymorphism; Weak to strong

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS;

BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84856383378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr058     Document Type: Article

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