Mutations within lncRNAs are effectively selected against in fruitfly but not in human

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Haerty, Wilfried ^a   Ponting, Chris P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ZYGOSITY; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84878082656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-5-r49     Document Type: Article

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