"Genome design" model: Evidence from conserved intronic sequence in human-mouse comparison

Genome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 347-354

  Vinogradov, Alexander E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMICS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644652318     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4318206     Document Type: Article

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