Numerous potentially functional but non-genic conserved sequences on human chromosome 21

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6915, 2002, Pages 578-582

  Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^a   Reymond, Alexandre ^a   Lyle, Robert ^a   Scamuffa, Nathalie ^a   Ucla, Catherine ^a   Deutsch, Samuel ^a   Stevenson, Brian J ^b   Flegel, Volker ^b   Bucher, Philipp ^b   Jongeneel, C Victor ^b   Antonarakis, Stylianos E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PROTEINS; RNA;

GENOME CHANGES;

GENES;

CHROMOSOME; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 21; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PSEUDOGENES; RABBITS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 18744395183     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01251     Document Type: Article

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