Alu repeat analysis in the complete human genome: Trends and variations with respect to genomic composition

Bioinformatics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 813-817

  Grover, Deepak ^a   Mukerji, Mitali ^a   Bhatnagar, Pankaj ^a   Kannan, K ^b   Samir, K ^a   Brahmachari, Samir K ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANOSINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME 22; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; UNTRANSLATED REGION; Y CHROMOSOME;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; PRIMATES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 2342437120     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth005     Document Type: Article

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