Genome-wide survey for biologically functional pseudogenes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 358-369

  Svensson, Örjan ^a   Arvestad, Lars ^a   Lagergren, Jens ^a  

^a ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); GENES; MAMMALS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SURVEYS;

BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CANDIDATE SETS; CURRENT ESTIMATES; HUMANS MICE; IN-VIVO; MAMMALIAN GENOMES; PROPERTY; PROTEIN-CODING GENES; SYNTENY; TEST SETS;

PROTEINS;

ATAXIN 1; ATAXIN 7; MESSENGER RNA;

CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME 5; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; SYNTENY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATAXIA; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 33646941894     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020046     Document Type: Review

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