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Male-driven biased gene conversion governs the evolution of base composition in human alu repeats.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jun 2005
Webster Matthew T, Smith Nick G C, Hultin-Rosenberg Lina, Arndt Peter F, Ellegren Hans
Abstract excerpt
Regional biases in substitution pattern are likely to be responsible for the large-scale variation in base composition observed in vertebrate genomes. However, the evolutionary forces responsible for these biases are still not clearly defined. In order to study the processes of mutation and fixation across the entire human genome, we analyzed patterns of substitution in Alu repeats since their insertion. We also...
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