Phylogenetic roots of Alu-mediated rearrangements leading to cancer

Genome

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 160-167

  Gibbons, Rosaleen ^a   Dugaiczyk, Achilles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alu repeats; Cancer; DNA recombination; Evolution; Primates; Splicing

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEOPLASM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; RNA SPLICING;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; RNA SPLICE SITES;

PRIMATES;

EID: 19944365225     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g04-085     Document Type: Article

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