Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6915, 2002, Pages 520-562

  Waterston, Robert H ^a   Lindblad Toh, Kerstin ^b   Birney, Ewan ^c   Rogers, Jane ^d   Abril, Josep F ^e   Agarwal, Pankaj ^f   Agarwala, Richa ^g   Ainscough, Rachel ^d   Alexandersson, Marina ^h   An, Peter ^b   Antonarakis, Stylianos E ⁱ   Attwood, John ^d   Baertsch, Robert ^j   Bailey, Jonathon ^d   Barlow, Karen ^d   Beck, Stephan ^d   Berry, Eric ^b   Birren, Bruce ^b   Bloom, Toby ^b   Bork, Peer ^k   Botcherby, Marc ^l   Bray, Nicolas ^m   Brent, Michael R ⁿ   Brown, Daniel G ^b,o   Brown, Stephen D ^l   Bult, Carol ^p   Burton, John ^d   Butler, Jonathan ^b   Campbell, Robert D ^l   Carninci, Piero ^q   Cawley, Simon ^r   Chiaromonte, Francesca ^s   Chinwalla, Asif T ^a   Church, Deanna M ^g   Clamp, Michele ^d   Clee, Christopher ^d   Collins, Francis S ^t   Cook, Lisa L ^a   Copley, Richard R ^u   Coulson, Alan ^d   Couronne, Olivier ^m   Cuff, James ^d   Curwen, Val ^d   Cutts, Tim ^d   Daly, Mark ^b   David, Robert ^b   Davies, Joy ^d   Delehaunty, Kimberly D ^a   Deri, Justin ^b   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ⁱ   Dewey, Colin ^h   Dickens, Nicholas J ^v   Diekhans, Mark ^j   Dodge, Sheila ^b   Dubchak, Inna ^m   Dunn, Diane M ^w   Eddy, Sean R ^a   Elnitski, Laura ^s   Emes, Richard D ^v   Eswara, Pallavi ^x   Eyras, Eduardo ^d   Felsenfeld, Adam ^t   Fewell, Ginger A ^a   Flicek, Paul ⁿ   Foley, Karen ^b   Frankel, Wayne N ^p   Fulton, Lucinda A ^a   Fulton, Robert S ^a   Furey, Terrence S ^j   Gage, Diane ^b   Gibbs, Richard A ^y   Glusman, Gustavo ^z   Gnerre, Sante ^b   Goldman, Nick ^c   Goodstadt, Leo ^v   Grafham, Darren ^d   Graves, Tina A ^a   Green, Eric D ^t   Gregory, Simon ^d   Guigó, Roderic ^e   Guyer, Mark ^t   Hardison, Ross C ^s   Haussler, David ^aa   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ^q   LaHillier, Deana W ^a   Hinrichs, Angela ^j   Hlavina, Wratko ^g   Holzer, Timothy ^b   Hsu, Fan ^j   Hua, Axin ^ab   Hubbard, Tim ^d   Hunt, Adrienne ^d   Jackson, Ian ^l   Jaffe, David B ^b   Johnson, L Steven ^a   Jones, Matthew ^d   Jones, Thomas A ^a   Joy, Ann ^d   Kamal, Michael ^b   Karlsson, Elinor K ^b   Karolchik, Donna ^j   Kasprzyk, Arkadiusz ^c   Kawai, Jun ^q   Keibler, Evan ⁿ   Kells, Cristyn ^b   Kent, W James ^j   Kirby, Andrew ^b   Kolbe, Diana L ^s   Korf, Ian ⁿ   Kucherlapati, Raju S ^ac   Kulbokas III, Edward J ^b   Kulp, David ^r   Landers, Tom ^b   Leger, J P ^b   Leonard, Steven ^d   Letunic, Ivica ^k   Levine, Rosie ^b   Li, Jia ^s   Li, Ming ^ad   Lloyd, Christine ^d   Lucas, Susan ^ae   Ma, Bin ^af   Maglott, Donna R ^g   Mardis, Elaine R ^a   Matthews, Lucy ^d   Mauceli, Evan ^b   Mayer, John H ^b   McCarthy, Megan ^b   McCombie, W Richard ^ag   McLaren, Stuart ^d   McLay, Kirsten ^d   McPherson, John D ^a   Meldrim, Jim ^b   Meredith, Beverley ^d   Mesirov, Jill P ^b   Miller, Webb ^x   Miner, Tracie L ^a   Mongin, Emmanuel ^c   Montgomery, Kate T ^ac   Morgan, Michael ^ah   Mott, Richard ^u   Mullikin, James C ^d   Muzny, Donna M ^y   Nash, William E ^a   Nelson, Joanne O ^a   Nhan, Michael N ^a   Nicol, Robert ^b   Ning, Zemin ^d   Nusbaum, Chad ^b   O'Connor, Michael J ^x   Okazaki, Yasushi ^q   Oliver, Karen ^d   Overton Larty, Emma ^d   Pachter, Lior ^h   Parra, Genís ^e   Pepin, Kymberlie H ^a   Peterson, Jane ^t   Pevzner, Pavel ^ai   Plumb, Robert ^d   Pohl, Craig S ^a   Poliakov, Alex ^m   Ponce, Tracy C ^a   Ponting, Chris P ^v   Potter, Simon ^d   Quail, Michael ^d   Reymond, Alexandre ⁱ   Roe, Bruce A ^ab   Roskin, Krishna M ^j   Rubin, Edward M ^m   Rust, Alistair G ^c   Santos, Ralph ^b   Sapojnikov, Victor ^g   Schultz, Brian ^a   Schultz, Jorg ^aj   Schwartz, Matthias S ^j   Schwartz, Scott ^x   Scott, Carol ^d   Seaman, Steven ^b   Searle, Steve ^d   Sharpe, Ted ^b   Sheridan, Andrew ^b   Shownkeen, Ratna ^d   Sims, Sarah ^d   Singer, Jonathan B ^b   Slater, Guy ^c   Smit, Arian ^z   Smith, Douglas R ^ak   Spencer, Brian ^b   Stabenau, Arne ^c   Stange Thomann, Nicole ^b   Sugnet, Charles ^j   Suyama, Mikita ^k   Tesler, Glenn ^ai   Thompson, Johanna ^a   Torrents, David ^k   Trevaskis, Evanne ^a   Tromp, John ^al   Ucla, Catherine ⁱ   Ureta Vidal, Abel ^c   Vinson, Jade P ^b   von Niederhausern, Andrew C ^w   Wade, Claire M ^b   Wall, Melanie ^d   Weber, Ryan J ^j   Weiss, Robert B ^w   Wendl, Michael C ^a   West, Anthony P ^d   Wetterstrand, Kris ^t   Wheeler, Raymond ^r   Whelan, Simon ^c   Wierzbowski, Jamey ^b   Willey, David ^d   Williams, Sophie ^d   Wilson, Richard K ^a   Winter, Eitan ^v   Worley, Kim C ^y   Wyman, Dudley ^b   Yang, Shan ^s   Yang, Shiaw Pyng ^a   Zdobnov, Evgeny M ^k   Zody, Michael C ^b   Lander, Eric S ^b,am   more..

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^f GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^j University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^k EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^l MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^m LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁿ WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^p JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^q RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^r Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^s PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^v UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^w UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^x The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^y BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^z INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^ac HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^ad University of California   (United States)

^ae DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^af UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^ag Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^ah WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^aj MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^ak GENOME THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^al Bioinformatics Solutions Inc   (Canada)

^am MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

POLYMORPHISM;

BIODIVERSITY; GENES; IMMUNOLOGY; PROTEINS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

GENOME; RODENT;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PROTEOME; PSEUDOGENES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNTENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

RODENTIA;

EID: 1542563409     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01262     Document Type: Article

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