Structure of chromosomal duplicons and their role in mediating human genomic disorders

Genome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 597-610

  Ji, Yonggang ^a,b   Eichler, Evan E ^b   Schwartz, Stuart ^b   Nicholls, Robert D ^b  

^a GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DUPLICATE GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GERM CELL; HEMOPHILIA A; HUMAN; ICHTHYOSIS; MUTATION; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS;

EID: 0034028921     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.10.5.597     Document Type: Review

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