Sex differences in mutation rate in higher primates estimated from AMG intron sequences.

doi:10.1007/pl00006166

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Sex differences in mutation rate in higher primates estimated from AMG intron sequences.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Apr 1997

Huang W, Chang B H, Gu X, Hewett-Emmett D, Li W

Abstract excerpt

To study sex differences in mutation rate in primates, we sequenced the third introns of the AMGX and AMGY genes from humans, orangutans, and squirrel monkeys and estimated that the male-to-female ratio of mutation rate is alpha = 5.14 with the 95% confidence interval (2.42, 16.6). Combining this...

Topics

Animals
Confidence Intervals
Female
Humans
Introns
Liver
Male
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Papio
Pongo pygmaeus
Primates
Rodentia
Saimiri
Sex Characteristics
Species Specificity
Time
X Chromosome

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