Biology of mammalian L1 retrotransposons

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2001, Pages 501-538

  Ostertag, E M ^a   Kazazian H H , Jr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome structure; Human mutation; Mouse mutation; Reverse transcription; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TELOMERASE;

CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENOME; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MAMMALS; MICE; TELOMERASE;

EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MAMMALIA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0035674903     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.35.102401.091032     Document Type: Review

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