Large-scale analysis of the Alu Ya5 and Yb8 subfamilies and their contribution to human genomic diversity

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 311, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 17-40

  Carroll, Marion L ^a   Roy Engel, Astrid M ^b   Nguyen, Son V ^a   Salem, Abdel Halim ^a,c   Vogel, Erika ^b   Vincent, Bethaney ^a,c   Myers, Jeremy ^a,c   Ahmad, Zahid ^a,c   Nguyen, Lan ^a   Sammarco, Mimi ^a   Watkins, W Scott ^d   Henke, Jurgen ^e   Makalowski, Wojciech ^f   Jorde, Lynn B ^d   Deininger, Prescott L ^b,g   Batzer, Mark A ^a,c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^e Institut Fur Blutgruppenforschung   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^g OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alu insertion polymorphism; Computational biology; Gene conversion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 0035800561     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4847     Document Type: Article

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