Housekeeping and tissue-specific genes differ in simple sequence repeats in the 5′-UTR region

Gene

Volumn 407, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 54-62

  Lawson, Mark J ^a   Zhang, Liqing ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5 UTR; Gene expression; Gene function; Microsatellite; Tissue specificity

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS;

EID: 37049010696     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.09.017     Document Type: Article

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