Variation in Heterozygosity Predicts Variation in Human Substitution Rates between Populations, Individuals and Genomic Regions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Amos, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE CONVERSION; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUTATION RATE;

EID: 84877003085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063048     Document Type: Article

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