Daniel Smith
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| Quote (jeannot @ Oct. 13 2007,15:16) | | So what about the fact that mutation rates are far higher at synonymous sites? |
As I understand it (and I just learned this) synonymous sites are sites that will accept a substitution with no functional change. Therefore, there's no reason that these sites wouldn't show higher mutation rates. The question is: why do sites that are supposedly non-functional show more constraint than synonymous sites?
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