Differences in molecular evolutionary rates among microRNAs in the human and chimpanzee genomes
[Background] The rise of the primate lineage is accompanied by an outstanding emergence of microRNAs, small non-coding RNAs with a prominent role in gene regulation. In spite of their biological importance little is known about the way in which natural selection has influenced microRNAs in the human lineage. To study the recent evolutionary history of human microRNAs and to analyze the signatures of natural selection in genomic regions harbouring microRNAs we have investigated the nucleotide substitution rates of 1,872 human microRNAs in the human and chimpanzee lineages.
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016-07-29
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| Subjects: | microRNAs, Acceleration rates, Primates, Divergence, microRNA cluster, Evolution, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/150607 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002809 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 |
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