Codon-based detection of positive selection can be biased by heterogeneous distribution of polar amino acids along protein sequences.

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Published in Comput Syst Bioinformatics Conf on January 01, 2006

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Xuhua Xia1, Sudhir Kumar

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1: Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie Curie, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N, Canada. xxia@uottawa.ca

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