CpG site degeneration triggered by the loss of functional constraint created a highly polymorphic macaque drug-metabolizing gene, <it>CYP1A2</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Elucidating the pattern of evolutionary changes in drug-metabolizing genes is an important subject not only for evolutionary but for biomedical research. We investigated the pattern of divergence and polymorphisms of macaque <it&g...

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Main Authors: Osada Naoki, Uno Yasuhiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-10-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/283