Molecular mechanisms for genomic disorders

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 199-242

  Inoue, Ken ^a   Lupski, James R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome rearrangement; Deletion; Duplication; Gene conversion; Gene dosage; Low copy repeat; Nonallelic homologous recombination

Indexed keywords

GENE LOSS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MEDICAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0036407262     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.3.032802.120023     Document Type: Review

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