Multi-species sequence comparison reveals dynamic evolution of the elastin gene that has involved purifying selection and lineage-specific insertions/deletions

BMC Genomics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Piontkivska, Helen ^a,b   Zhang, Yi ^c   Green, Eric D ^d   Elnitski, Laura ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN; RNA; DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNTENY; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME; ANIMAL; BABOON; CAT; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOG; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; CATTLE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; DOGS; ELASTIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPIO; RATS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; SYNTENY;

EID: 9444228176     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-5-31     Document Type: Article

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