Structural divergence between the human and chimpanzee genomes

Human Genetics

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 759-778

  Kehrer Sawatzki, Hildegard ^a   Cooper, David N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA CONTENT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; KARYOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PAN TROGLODYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

PAN;

EID: 33846376502     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-006-0270-6     Document Type: Review

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