Densities, length proportions, and other distributional features of repetitive sequences in the human genome estimated from 430 megabases of genomic sequence

Gene

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 81-88

  Gu, Zhenglong ^a   Wang, Haidong ^a   Nekrutenko, Anton ^a   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

GC content effect; Regional mutation pressure; Repeat density; Repeat distribution; Y chromosome evolution

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALU ELEMENTS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0034707206     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00434-0     Document Type: Article

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