Evidence for positive selection on a number of microRNA regulatory interactions during recent human evolution

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Li, Jingjing ^a,b,f   Liu, Yu ^b,c   Xin, Xiaofeng ^a,b,g   Kim, Taehyung Simon ^a   Cabeza, Eduardo Aguiar ^c   Ren, Jie ^d   Nielsen, Rasmus ^e   Wrana, Jeffrey L ^b,c   Zhang, Zhaolei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 55; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MIRN155 MICRORNA, HUMAN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TYRP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICRORNAS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84859248536     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002578     Document Type: Article

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