GC composition of the human genome: In search of isochores

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1260-1272

  Cohen, Netta ^a   Dagan, Tal ^b   Stone, Lewi ^b   Graur, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

GC content; Genome organization; Human genome; Isochores; Jensen Shannon entropic divergence

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; ISOCHORE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

BASE COMPOSITION; DNA; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; ISOCHORES; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 17744373298     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi115     Document Type: Article

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