Evidence for evolutionary and nonevolutionary forces shaping the distribution of human genetic variants near transcription start sites

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Scala, Giovanni ^a,b   Affinito, Ornella ^a,c   Miele, Gennaro ^a,b   Monticelli, Antonella ^a,c   Cocozza, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOSOME; PATHOGENICITY; PURIFYING SELECTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PROMOTER REGION;

CPG ISLANDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84915817176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114432     Document Type: Article

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