Reduced selection and accumulation of deleterious mutations in genes exclusively expressed in men

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gershoni, Moran ^a   Pietrokovski, Shmuel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HERITABILITY; INFERTILITY; MALE; MUTATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMETE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INHERITANCE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MALE SPECIFIC GENE; MALE STERILITY; PHENOTYPE; PURIFYING SELECTION; REPRODUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MUTATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; TESTIS;

EID: 84904304274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5438     Document Type: Article

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