Methylation patterns in the isochores of vertebrate genomes

Gene

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 119-124

  Cacciò, Simone ^a,c   Jabbari, Kamel ^a   Matassi, Giorgio ^a,d   Guermonprez, Fanny ^b   Desgrès, Jean ^b   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

CpG dinucleotides; Vertebrate evolution

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; DNA;

CHICKEN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; GENOME; HUMAN; ISOCHORE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; GENOME; HUMANS; VERTEBRATES;

GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031593201     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00560-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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