Biased distribution of inverted and direct Alus in the human genome: Implications for insertion, exclusion, and genome stability

Genome Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 12-27

  Stenger, Judith E ^a,c   Lobachev, Kirill S ^a   Gordenin, Dmitry ^a   Darden, Thomas A ^a   Jurka, Jerzy ^b   Resnick, Michael A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Genetic Information Research Institute   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ALU SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ALU ELEMENTS; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0035147092     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.158801     Document Type: Article

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