Signals of Historical Interlocus Gene Conversion in Human Segmental Duplications

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Dumont, Beth L ^a,c   Eichler, Evan E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN GENOME; INTERLOCUS GENE CONVERSION; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; TELOMERE; Y CHROMOSOME;

GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MUTATION; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATIONS, GENOMIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84885075597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075949     Document Type: Article

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