Mammalian non-LTR retrotransposons: For better or worse, in sickness and in health

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-358

  Belancio, Victoria P ^a   Hedges, Dale J ^a   Deininger, Prescott ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALU SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RETROELEMENTS; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 40449139336     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.5558208     Document Type: Review

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