Highly prevalent putative quadruplex sequence motifs in human DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2901-2907

  Todd, Alan K ^a   Johnston, Matthew ^a   Neidle, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANINE; QUADRUPLEX DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; GENOME, HUMAN; GUANINE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 20144369806     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki553     Document Type: Article

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