Molecular archeology of L1 insertions in the human genome

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Szak, Suzanne T ^a,c,g   Pickeral, Oxana K ^a,b,d,g   Makalowski, Wojciech ^a,e   Boguski, Mark S ^a,b,f   Landsman, David ^a   Boeke, Jef D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BIOGEN   (United States)

^d GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^g These Authors Contributed Equally to This Work   (United States)

Author keywords

Downstream Flank Sequence; Emerin; Inversion Breakpoint; Inverted Element; Inverted Segment

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLIC ACID;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLY A; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 0003308786     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-10-research0052     Document Type: Article

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