Millions of years of evolution preserved: A comprehensive catalog of the processed pseudogenes in the human genome

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2541-2558

  Zhang, Zhaolei ^a   Harrison, Paul M ^a   Liu, Yin ^a   Gerstein, Mark ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHILIN A; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOSINE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GUANINE; KERATIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTERNET; ISOCHORES; MICE; PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0346752110     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1429003     Document Type: Article

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