Alu and LINE1 distributions in the human chromosomes: Evidence of global genomic organization expressed in the form of power laws

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2385-2399

  Sellis, Diamantis ^a   Provata, Astero ^a   Almirantis, Yannis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alu; LINE1; Power laws; Repeat distributions

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ALU ELEMENTS; BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 35848965245     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm181     Document Type: Article

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