Position-dependent correlations between DNA methylation and the evolutionary rates of mammalian coding exons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15841-15846

  Chuang, Trees Juen ^a   Chen, Feng Chi ^b,c,d   Chen, Yen Zho ^a  

^a GENOMICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Deep sequencing; Exon evolution; Genomics; Methylation associated mutation

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; DINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CODING EXON; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MACACA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTITUTION LINE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MACACA; MICE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OPEN READING FRAMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84866864992     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208214109     Document Type: Article

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