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Screening for Functional Non-coding Genetic Variants Using Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay (EMSA) and DNA-affinity Precipitation Assay (DAPA)
Published on: August 21, 2016
Comment on "Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions"
1Genome Sciences Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. phg@uw.edu
Abstract:
Ward and Kellis (Reports, 28 September 2012, p. 1675; published online 5 September 2012) found altered patterns of human polymorphism in biochemically active but non-mammalian-conserved genomic regions relative to control regions and interpreted this as due to lineage-specific purifying selection. We find on closer inspection of their data that the polymorphism trends are primarily attributable to mutational variation and technical artifacts rather than selection.
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