Darwinian and demographic forces affecting human protein coding genes.

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Published in Genome Res on March 11, 2009

Authors

Rasmus Nielsen1, Melissa J Hubisz, Ines Hellmann, Dara Torgerson, Aida M Andrés, Anders Albrechtsen, Ryan Gutenkunst, Mark D Adams, Michele Cargill, Adam Boyko, Amit Indap, Carlos D Bustamante, Andrew G Clark

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Rasmus@binf.ku.dk

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