Primate CpG islands are maintained by heterogeneous evolutionary regimes involving minimal selection.

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Published in Cell on May 27, 2011

Authors

Netta Mendelson Cohen1, Ephraim Kenigsberg, Amos Tanay

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.

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