Triplet repeats in human genome: Distribution and their association with genes and other genomic regions

Bioinformatics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 549-552

  Subramanian, Subbaya ^a   Madgula, Vamsi M ^b   George, Ranjan ^b   Mishra, Rakesh K ^a   Pandit, Madhusudhan W ^a   Kumar, Chanderashekar S ^b   Singh, Lalji ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b Ingenovis   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037460956     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg029     Document Type: Article

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