Statistical features of human exons and their flanking regions

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 919-932

  Zhang, M Q ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS;

ADENINE; BASE COMPOSITION; BAYES THEOREM; CODON; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CYTOSINE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EXONS; GUANINE; HUMANS; INTRONS; READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THYMINE;

EID: 0031921640     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.5.919     Document Type: Article

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