Forces Shaping the Fastest Evolving Regions in the Human Genome

Katherine S Pollard; Sofie R Salama; Bryan King; Andrew D Kern; Tim Dreszer; Sol Katzman; Adam Siepel; Jakob S Pedersen; Gill Bejerano; Robert Baertsch; Kate R Rosenbloom; Jim Kent; David Haussler

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0020168

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Forces Shaping the Fastest Evolving Regions in the Human Genome

Katherine S Pollard ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kspollard@ucdavis.edu

Current address: Genome Center and Department of Statistics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Sofie R Salama,

Affiliations Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Bryan King,

Affiliations Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Andrew D Kern,

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Tim Dreszer,

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Sol Katzman,

Affiliations Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Adam Siepel,

Current address: Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Jakob S Pedersen,

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Gill Bejerano,

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Robert Baertsch,

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Kate R Rosenbloom,

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Jim Kent,

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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David Haussler

Affiliations Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Forces Shaping the Fastest Evolving Regions in the Human Genome

Katherine S Pollard,
Sofie R Salama,
Bryan King,
Andrew D Kern,
Tim Dreszer,
Sol Katzman,
Adam Siepel,
Jakob S Pedersen,
Gill Bejerano,
Robert Baertsch

Published: October 13, 2006
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0020168

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