Primate evolution of the recombination regulator PRDM9

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Schwartz, Jerrod J ^a   Roach, David J ^a   Thomas, James H ^a   Shendure, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PRDM9 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALLELE; CHEMICAL BINDING; GENOME; NEANDERTHAL; PRIMATE; RECOMBINATION;

ALLELE; ARCHAEAL GENE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; DENISOVAN; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HOMINID; FOSSIL PRIMATE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLESIOMORPHY; PRDM9 GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIMATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIMATES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84903979341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5370     Document Type: Article

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