Evolution of the cystatin B gene: Implications for the origin of its variable dodecamer tandem repeat in humans

Genomics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 78-84

  Osawa, Motoki ^a   Kaneko, Mika ^a   Horiuchi, Hidekazu ^a   Kitano, Takashi ^b   Kawamoto, Yoshi ^c   Saitou, Naruya ^b   Umetsu, Kazuo ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cystatin B; Molecular evolution; Primates; VNTR

Indexed keywords

CYSTATIN B;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HOMINID; HUMAN; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

HOMO; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037288536     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-7543(02)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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