Alu recombination-mediated structural deletions in the chimpanzee genome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1939-1949

  Han, Kyudong ^a   Lee, Jungnam ^a   Meyer, Thomas J ^a   Wang, Jianxin ^b   Sen, Shurjo K ^a   Srikanta, Deepa ^a   Liang, Ping ^b   Batzer, Mark A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INTRON; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; EXONS; GENE DELETION; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; SOFTWARE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 35948983427     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030184     Document Type: Article

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