Conserved distances between vertebrate highly conserved elements

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 2911-2922

  Sun, Hong ^a   Skogerbø, Geir ^a   Chen, Runsheng ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FISH GENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, INTERGENIC; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; VERTEBRATES;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33749000852     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl232     Document Type: Article

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