Impact of transposable elements on the human genome

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 264-273

  Deragon, Jean Marc ^a   Capy, Pierre ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

Diseases; Human genome; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; STRESS; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0034023123     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853890009011771     Document Type: Review

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