The relationship between chromosome structure and function at a human telomeric region

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 252-257

  Flint, Jonathan ^a   Thomas, Karen ^b   Micklem, Gos ^b   Raynham, Helen ^a   Clark, Kevin ^a   Doggett, Norman A ^c   King, Andrew ^b   Higgs, Douglas R ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 16P; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031029805     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0397-252     Document Type: Article

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