Partitioning of genetic variation between regulatory and coding gene segments: The predominance of software variation in genes encoding introvert proteins

Immunogenetics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 46-52

  Mitchison, Avrion ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES RHEUMA FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; IMMUNOGENETICS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REGULATOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CODON; GENES; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGENETICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS COMPUTING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030992008     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050241     Document Type: Article

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