Estimation of genetic distances from human and mouse introns

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Castresana, Jose ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

Codon Frequency; Human Intron; Individual Intron; Mutational Force; Nonsynonymous Rate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ETIOLOGY; EXON; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; MAMMALIAN CHROMOSOME; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0036051359     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-6-research0028     Document Type: Article

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