An assessment of the sequence gaps: Unfinished business in a finished human genome

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 345-354

  Eichler, Evan E ^a   Clark, Royden A ^a   She, Xinwei ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; CENTROMERE; EUCHROMATIN; GENE DUPLICATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUCHROMATIN; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; INTERNET; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 1942499458     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1322     Document Type: Review

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