From microscopes to microarrays: Dissecting recurrent chromosomal rearrangements

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 869-883

  Emanuel, Beverly S ^a   Saitta, Sulagna C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMITH MAGENIS SYNDROME; SOTOS SYNDROME; VELOCARDIOFACIAL SYNDROME; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 35348965707     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2136     Document Type: Review

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