8.2% of the Human genome is constrained: variation in rates of turnover across functional element classes in the human lineage.

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Published in PLoS Genet on July 24, 2014

Authors

Chris M Rands1, Stephen Meader1, Chris P Ponting1, Gerton Lunter2

Author Affiliations

1: MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
2: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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