The role of gene regulatory factors in the evolutionary history of humans

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 60-67

  Perdomo Sabogal, Alvaro ^a   Kanton, Sabina ^a   Walter, Maria Beatriz C ^a   Nowick, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLA LIKE 2 PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HOX TRANSCRIPT ANTISENSE RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; FORKHEAD BOX D4 LIKE 5 GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; KRUPPEL TYPE ZINC FINGER GENE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SKELETON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA X BREAKPOINT 1 GENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84908068657     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2014.08.007     Document Type: Review

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