Duplicate, decouple, disperse: The evolutionary transience of human centromeric regions

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 629-635

  Jackson, Michael ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN; CYTOCHROME P450; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; NEUROFIBROMIN; REPETITIVE DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APE; CENTROMERE; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE ASSOCIATION; DISPERSION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EUCHROMATIN; EUKARYOTE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE ORDER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MACACA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARALOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X CHROMOSOME; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; EUKARYOTA; MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0344153498     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2003.10.011     Document Type: Review

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