A genome-wide survey of human pseudogenes

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2559-2567

  Torrents, David ^a   Suyama, Mikita ^a   Zdobnov, Evgeny ^a   Bork, Peer ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0348013073     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1455503     Document Type: Article

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