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Targets of balancing selection in the human genomeAida M Andres
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, USA
Mol Biol Evol 26:2755-64. 2009....
Understanding the accuracy of statistical haplotype inference with sequence data of known phaseAida M Andres
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Genet Epidemiol 31:659-71. 2007..Strategies to improve confidence in reconstructed haplotypes, and realistic alternatives to the analysis of inferred haplotypes, are discussed...
Heterogeneous rate of protein evolution in serotonin genesAida M Andres
Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Mol Biol Evol 24:2707-15. 2007....
Comparative genetics of functional trinucleotide tandem repeats in humans and apesAida M Andres
Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Facultat de Ciencies de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
J Mol Evol 59:329-39. 2004..Only two loci (SCA1 and SCA8) show a human specific distribution, with larger alleles than the rest of species. This could account, at the same time, for a human-specific trait and a predisposition to disease through expansion...
Positive selection in MAOA gene is human exclusive: determination of the putative amino acid change selected in the human lineageAida M Andres
Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Departament de Ciencies Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Hum Genet 115:377-86. 2004....
Low exchangeability of selenocysteine, the 21st amino acid, in vertebrate proteinsSergi Castellano
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Mol Biol Evol 26:2031-40. 2009..A better understanding of the selenoproteomes and neutral evolutionary patterns in other taxa will be necessary to fully assess the generality of this conclusion...
Comparative analysis of Alu insertion sequences in the APP 5' flanking region in humans and other primatesJordi Clarimon
Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Facultat de Ciencies de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, c Doctor Aiguader 80, Barcelona, 08003, Catalonia, Spain
J Mol Evol 58:722-31. 2004....
Dynamics of CAG repeat loci revealed by the analysis of their variabilityAida M Andres
Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Facultat de Ciencies de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Hum Mutat 21:61-70. 2003....
Global distribution of genomic diversity underscores rich complex history of continental human populationsAdam Auton
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 2601, USA
Genome Res 19:795-803. 2009....
Demographic histories and patterns of linkage disequilibrium in Chinese and Indian rhesus macaquesRyan D Hernandez
Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Science 316:240-3. 2007..15 at 10 kilobases) versus Indian (r(2) approximately 0.52 at 10 kilobases) macaque populations...
Evolutionary processes acting on candidate cis-regulatory regions in humans inferred from patterns of polymorphism and divergenceDara G Torgerson
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
PLoS Genet 5:e1000592. 2009..Overall we find that natural selection has played an important role in the evolution of candidate cis-regulatory regions throughout hominid evolution...
