Conserved fragments of transposable elements in intergenic regions: Evidence for widespread recruitment of MIR- and L2-derived sequences within the mouse and human genomes

Genetical Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-18

  Silva, J C ^a,c   Shabalina, S A ^a   Harris, D G ^b   Spouge, J L ^a   Kondrashov, A S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY   (United States)

^c Institute for Genome Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ILEX COOKII; MURINAE; RODENTIA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0141615769     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672303006268     Document Type: Article

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