The size differences among mammalian introns are due to the accumulation of small deletions

FEBS Letters

Volumn 390, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-103

  Ogata, Hiroyuki ^a   Fujibuchi, Wataru ^a   Kanehisa, Minoru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deletion; Insertion; Intron; Isochore family; Mutation rate; Size difference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; ISOCHORE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030586280     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00636-9     Document Type: Article

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