Functional recurrent mutations in the human mitochondrial phylogeny: Dual roles in evolution and disease

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 876-890

  Levin, Liron ^a   Zhidkov, Ilia ^a   Gurman, Yotam ^a   Hawlena, Hadas ^a   Mishmar, Dan ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Homoplasy; Mitochondrial DNA; Recurrent nodal mutations; Selection

Indexed keywords

CODON; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA;

CODON; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; ARTICLE; HOMOPLASY; RECURRENT NODAL MUTATIONS; SELECTION;

CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA; SELECTION, GENETIC;

HOMOPLASY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RECURRENT NODAL MUTATIONS; SELECTION;

EID: 84891400533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt058     Document Type: Article

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