Estimating the human mutation rate from autozygous segments reveals population differences in human mutational processes

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Narasimhan, Vagheesh M ^a   Rahbari, Raheleh ^a   Scally, Aylwyn ^b   Wuster, Arthur ^a,c   Mason, Dan ^d   Xue, Yali ^a   Wright, John ^d   Trembath, Richard C ^e   Maher, Eamonn R ^b,f   Van Heel, David A ^g   Auton, Adam ^h   Hurles, Matthew E ^a   Tyler Smith, Chris ^a   Durbin, Richard ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^d BRADFORD INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOME; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GERMLINE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

EXOME; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 85027846306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00323-y     Document Type: Article

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