The role of GC-Biased gene conversion in shaping the fastest evolving regions of the human genome

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1047-1057

  Kostka, Dennis ^a   Hubisz, Melissa J ^b   Siepel, Adam ^b   Pollard, Katherine S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

conserved noncoding elements; GC biased gene conversion; genome evolution; human accelerated regions; lineage specific adaption

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE CONVERSION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84857214297     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr279     Document Type: Article

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