Nonrandom distribution of Alu elements in genes of various functional categories: Insight from analysis of human chromosomes 21 and 22

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1420-1424

  Grover, Deepak ^a   Majumder, Partha P ^b   Rao, Chandrika B ^a   Brahmachari, Samir K ^a   Mukerji, Mitali ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Alu; Chromosomes 21 and 22; Functional classification; Gene regulation; Repeat distribution; Retrotransposons

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPORT; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 22; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALU ELEMENTS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; DNA; GENES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PRIMATES;

EID: 0042836785     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg153     Document Type: Article

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