Tandem repeat variation in human and great ape populations and its impact on gene expression divergence

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1591-1599

  Sonay, Tugce Bilgin ^a,b   Carvalho, Tiago ^a   Robinson, Mark D ^a,b   Greminger, Maja P ^a   Krützen, Michael ^a   Comas, David ^c   Highnam, Gareth ^d   Mittelman, David ^d   Sharp, Andrew ^e   Marques Bonet, Tomàs ^c,f,g   Wagner, Andreas ^a,b,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f PNT PCB   (Spain)

^g INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^h SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; APE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MACACA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; PRIMATE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PRIMATES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84946600782     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.190868.115     Document Type: Article

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