Mobile elements and the human genome

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 134-144

  Luning Prak, Eline T ^a   Kazazian Jr , Haig H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0034331005     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35038572     Document Type: Review

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