Retroelement distributions in the human genome: Variations associated with age and proximity to genes

Genome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1483-1495

  Medstrand, Patrik ^a   Van De Lagemaat, Louie N ^b,c   Mager, Dixie L ^b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME; TRANSPOSON; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALU ELEMENTS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; RETROELEMENTS; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036798062     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.388902     Document Type: Article

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