Recently integrated human Alu repeats: Finding needles in the haystack

Genetica

Volumn 107, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 149-161

  Roy, Astrid M ^a   Carroll, Marion L ^b   Kass, David H ^c   Nguyen, Son V ^b   Salem, Abdel Halim ^b,d   Batzer, Mark A ^b   Deininger, Prescott L ^a,e  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^e OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alu insertion polymorphisms; Anchored PCR; Comparative genomics; Computational biology

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES;

DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GORILLA; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0033290252     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003941704138     Document Type: Article

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