IntErlocus gene conversion events introduce deleterious mutations into at least 1% of human genes associated with inherited disease

Genome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 429-435

  Casola, Claudio ^a   Zekonyte, Ugne ^a   Phillips, Andrew D ^b   Cooper, David N ^b   Hahn, Matthew W ^a,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC EPISTASIS; HUMAN; INTERLOCUS GENE CONVERSION; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; MUTATION;

EID: 84857859271     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.127738.111     Document Type: Article

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