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Selective Pressures at a Codon-level Predict Deleterious Mutations in Human Disease Genes

✍ Scribed by Leonardo Arbiza; Serena Duchi; David Montaner; Jordi Burguet; David Pantoja-Uceda; Antonio Pineda-Lucena; Joaquín Dopazo; Hernán Dopazo

Book ID
116662922
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
761 KB
Volume
358
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-2836

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