The human genome-wide distribution of DNA palindromes

Functional and Integrative Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 221-227

  Lu, Le ^a   Jia, Hui ^a   Dröge, Peter ^a   Li, Jinming ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Genomic distribution; Palindrome

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPLICATION; EXON; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN DNA PALINDROME DATABASE; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 34249663836     PISSN: 1438793X     EISSN: 14387948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10142-007-0047-6     Document Type: Article

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