What drives codon choices in human genes?

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 262, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 459-472

  Karlin, Samuel ^a   Mrázek, Jan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CG suppression; Codon bias; Dinucleotide relative abundances; Genome signature; TA avoidance

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA;

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030569016     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0528     Document Type: Article

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