Genome-wide analysis of microsatellite repeats in humans: their abundance and density in specific genomic regions

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Subramanian, Subbaya ^a   Mishra, Rakesh K ^a   Singh, Lalji ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Exonic Region; Intergenic Region; Mononucleotide Repeat; Repeat Type

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0037268258     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-2-r13     Document Type: Article

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