Comparative analysis of amino acid repeats in rodents and humans

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 549-554

  Albà, M Mar ^a   Guigó, Roderic ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; ISOCHORE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GC RICH SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEINS; RATS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 1842717952     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1925704     Document Type: Article

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