Quantification of GC-biased gene conversion in the human genome

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1215-1228

  Glémin, Sylvain ^a,b   Arndt, Peter F ^c   Messer, Philipp W ^d   Petrov, Dmitri ^e   Galtier, Nicolas ^a   Duret, Laurent ^f  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^d Program on Infrastructure Policy   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENOME; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLARIZATION; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CPG ISLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS;

MAMMALIA;

BASE COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CPG ISLANDS; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84938840373     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.185488.114     Document Type: Article

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