Recently integrated Alu elements and human genomic diversity

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1349-1361

  Salem, Abdel Halim ^a   Kilroy, Gail E ^b   Watkins, W Scott ^b   Jorde, Lynn B ^b   Batzer, Mark A ^b  

^a Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Deletion; Gene conversion; Insertion polymorphism; Primates

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

INSERTION SEQUENCES; PRIMATES;

EID: 0041571675     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg150     Document Type: Article

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