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On the association between chromosomal rearrangements and genic evolution in humans and chimpanzees

Tomàs Marques-Bonet1, Jesús Sànchez-Ruiz1, Lluís Armengol2,7, Razi Khaja3, Jaume Bertranpetit1,7, Núria Lopez-Bigas4, Mariano Rocchi5, Elodie Gazave1 and Arcadi Navarro1,7,8,6*

Author Affiliations

1 Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain

2 Genes and Disease Program, Center for Genomic Regulation,. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Dr. Aiguader 88, 1. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain

3 The Center for Applied Genomics. The Hospital for Sick Children. MaRS Centre - East Tower. 101 College Street, Room 14-706. Toronto, Ontario. Canada

4 Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics of IMIM/UPF. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain

5 Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia. Universita di Bari, Bari, Italy

6 Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA) and Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Plaça Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain

7 CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain

8 Population Genomics Node (GNV8) National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB), Spain

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R230 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r230

Published: 30 October 2007

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Analysis of lineage-specific evolutionary rates and recombination rates for factors known to affect evolutionary rates and according to their position in relation to rearrangements as well as a comparison of evolutionary breakpoints between human and chimpanzee.

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