Evolutionary anatomies of positions and types of disease-associated and neutral amino acid mutations in the human genome

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Amino acid mutations in a large number of human proteins are known to be associated with heritable genetic disease. These disease-associated mutations (DAMs) are known to occur predominantly in positions essential to the structure an...

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Main Authors: Subramanian Sankar, Kumar Sudhir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-12-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/7/306