Why repetitive DNA is essential to genome function

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 227-250

  Shapiro, James A ^a   Von Sternberg, Richard ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocomputing; Chromatin domains; Data storage; Evolution; Junk DNA; Non coding DNA; Satellite DNA; Systems biology; Transcriptional regulation; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; SATELLITE DNA; SPACER DNA;

DNA SEQUENCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 19044397450     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793104006657     Document Type: Review

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