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Human-macaque comparisons illuminate variation in neutral substitution rates

Svitlana Tyekucheva1,2, Kateryna D Makova1,3, John E Karro4,5, Ross C Hardison1,6, Webb Miller1,2,7 and Francesca Chiaromonte1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

2 Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

3 Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

4 Department of Computer Science and System Analysis, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA

5 Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA

6 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

7 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R76 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-4-r76

Published: 30 April 2008

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Results of the regression analyses for the neutral substitution rates estimated using the HKY model.

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