Genes with monoallelic expression contribute disproportionately to genetic diversity in humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 231-237

  Savova, Virginia ^a,b   Chun, Sung ^c   Sohail, Mashaal ^c   Mccole, Ruth B ^b   Witwicki, Robert ^a   Gai, Lisa ^a   Lenz, Tobias L ^c,d   Wu, C Ting ^b   Sunyaev, Shamil R ^c   Gimelbrant, Alexander A ^a,b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALANCING SELECTION; CHIMPANZEE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE ADVANTAGE; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFYING SELECTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84959564435     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3493     Document Type: Article

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