Consensus higher order repeats and frequency of string distributions in human genome

Current Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 93-111

  Paar, Vladimir ^a   Basar, Ivan ^a   Rosandić, Marija ^b   Glunčić, Matko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Alpha satellite; Alphoid; CENP B box; Consensus higher order repeat; Frequency distributionof strings; Higher order repeat (HOR); Human genome; Key string algorithm KSA; pJ motif; Suprachromosomal families

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CONTIG; DNA FRAGMENT; MONOMER;

CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; KEY STRING ALGORITHM; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 34247894003     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920207780368169     Document Type: Review

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