Implications of human genome architecture for rearrangement-based disorders: The genomic basis of disease

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue REV. ISS. 1, 2004, Pages

  Shaw, Christine J ^a   Lupski, James R ^a,b,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; ISOCHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; REVIEW; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; EVOLUTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

PRIMATES; ROBERTSONIA;

EID: 1842526843     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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