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Calculating the Human Mutation Rate by Using a NUMT from the Early Oligocene

2015-03-14

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As the number of whole genomes available for study increases, so also does the opportunity to find unsuspected features hidden within our genetic code. One such feature allows for an estimate of the Human Mutation Rate in human chromosomes to be made. A NUMT is a small fragment of the mitochondrial DNA that enters the nucleus of a cell, gets captured by a chromosome and thereafter passed on from generation to gene...

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Literature Corpus work: b45dcc97-9069-5111-b326-1ecf03cc9054
DOI: 10.1101/016428

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