Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3439-3444

  Harris, Kelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic variation; Human evolution; Molecular clock; Mutation rate; UV damage

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC MUTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84925264691     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418652112     Document Type: Article

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