The impact of recent population history on the deleterious mutation load in humans and close evolutionary relatives

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 41, Issue , 2016, Pages 150-158

  Simons, Yuval B ^a   Sella, Guy ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOTTLENECK POPULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE MUTATION; GORILLA; HISTORY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; INBRED STRAIN; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MUTATIONAL LOAD; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; AFRICA; ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GORILLA GORILLA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84991489224     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2016.09.006     Document Type: Review

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