Transposable elements in human cancers by genome-wide EST alignment

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-156

  Kim, Dae Soo ^a   Huh, Jae Won ^a   Kim, Heui Soo ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cancer; EST; Fusion gene; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA BINDING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; TUMOR GENE;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, NEOPLASM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, NEOPLASM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34248342271     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.82.145     Document Type: Article

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