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Human mutation rate associated with DNA replication timing.
Nature genetics - 1 Apr 2009
Stamatoyannopoulos John A, Adzhubei Ivan, Thurman Robert E, Kryukov Gregory V, Mirkin Sergei M, Sunyaev Shamil R
Abstract excerpt
Eukaryotic DNA replication is highly stratified, with different genomic regions shown to replicate at characteristic times during S phase. Here we observe that mutation rate, as reflected in recent evolutionary divergence and human nucleotide diversity, is markedly increased in later-replicating regions of the human genome. All classes of substitutions are affected, suggesting a generalized mechanism involving...
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