On the structural plasticity of the human genome: Chromosomal inversions revisited

Current Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 623-632

  Alves, Joao M ^a,b   Lopes, Alexandra M ^a   Chikhi, Lounès ^b,c   Amorim, António ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c Université de Toulouse III Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l'Enseignement Agricole   (France)

Author keywords

Chromosomal inversions; Demographic history; Genome architecture; Human evolution; Non allelic homologous recombination; Segmental duplications

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME INVERSION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; INVERTED REPEAT; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84870196858     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: 18755488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920212803759703     Document Type: Review

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