Length distribution of long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs) and processed pseudogenes of human endogenous retroviruses: Implications for retrotransposition and pseudogene detection

Gene

Volumn 300, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 189-194

  Pavlíček, Adam ^a   Pačes, Jan ^a,b   Zíka, Radek ^a,b   Hejnar, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^b Center for Integrated Genomics   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alu; L1; Target primed reverse transcription

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DISSOCIATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PARAMETERS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RETROVIRUS; STATISTICS;

ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PSEUDOGENES; RETROELEMENTS;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS W; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES;

EID: 0037202376     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)01047-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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