Alu repeats and human genomic diversity

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 370-379

  Batzer, Mark A ^a   Deininger, Prescott L ^b,c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALU ELEMENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

INSERTION SEQUENCES; PRIMATES;

EID: 0036250811     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg798     Document Type: Review

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