LINE-mediated retrotransposition of marked Alu sequences

Nature Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-48

  Dewannieux, Marie ^a   Esnault, Cécile ^a   Heidmann, Thierry ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENOMICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSPOSON;

ALU ELEMENTS; DNA POLYMERASE III; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; POLY A;

TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0041353551     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1223     Document Type: Article

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