Forces shaping the fastest evolving regions in the human genome.

Comparative genomics allow us to search the human genome for segments that were extensively changed in the last approximately 5 million years since divergence from our common ancestor with chimpanzee, but are highly conserved in other species and thus are likely to be functional. We found 202 genomi...

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Main Authors: Katherine S Pollard, Sofie R Salama, Bryan King, Andrew D Kern, Tim Dreszer, Sol Katzman, Adam Siepel, Jakob S Pedersen, Gill Bejerano, Robert Baertsch, Kate R Rosenbloom, Jim Kent, David Haussler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0020168