Common fragile sites are conserved features of human and mouse chromosomes and relate to large active genes

Genome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1222-1230

  Helmrich, Anne ^a,b,d   Stout Weider, Karen ^a,b   Hermann, Klaus ^c   Schrock, Evelin ^a,b   Heiden, Thomas ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Signature Diagnostics AG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HELIX; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE NUMBER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33749384368     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.5335506     Document Type: Article

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