Simple sequences and the expanding genome

BioEssays

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 421-425

  Hancock, John M ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EUBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030138011     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950180512     Document Type: Article

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