8.2% of the Human Genome Is Constrained: Variation in Rates of Turnover across Functional Element Classes in the Human Lineage

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Rands, Chris M ^a   Meader, Stephen ^a   Ponting, Chris P ^a   Lunter, Gerton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TURNOVER TIME; UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HOMINID; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MICE; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84905455429     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004525     Document Type: Article

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