Estimating the human mutation rate using autozygosity in a founder population

Nature Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1277-1281

  Campbell, Catarina D ^a   Chong, Jessica X ^b   Malig, Maika ^a   Ko, Arthur ^a   Dumont, Beth L ^a   Han, Lide ^b   Vives, Laura ^a   O'Roak, Brian J ^a   Sudmant, Peter H ^a   Shendure, Jay ^a   Abney, Mark ^b   Ober, Carole ^b   Eichler, Evan E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOZYGOSITY; CPG ISLAND; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ZYGOSITY;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84868214089     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2418     Document Type: Article

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