The role of mutation rate variation and genetic diversity in the architecture of human disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Eyre Walker, Ying Chen ^a   Eyre Walker, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DNA CONTENT; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MALE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; GENES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MUTATION RATE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84896340509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090166     Document Type: Article

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