Gene-breaking: A new paradigm for human retrotransposon-mediated gene evolution

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1073-1078

  Wheelan, Sarah J ^a   Aizawa, Yasunori ^a   Han, Jeffrey S ^a   Boeke, Jef D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; EXON; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYADENYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RETROELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 23744454779     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3688905     Document Type: Article

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