A Selection Index for Gene Expression Evolution and Its Application to the Divergence between Humans and Chimpanzees

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About the Authors

Maria Warnefors

Current address: Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Adam Eyre-Walker

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW AEW. Performed the experiments: MW AEW. Analyzed the data: MW AEW. Wrote the paper: MW AEW.

Gene expression
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Chimpanzees
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Evolutionary genetics
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Gene regulation
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Mutation
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Deletion mutation
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Evolutionary adaptation
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Human genomics
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