CpG island density and its correlations with genomic features in mammalian genomes

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Han, Leng ^a,b,c   Su, Bing ^b,d   Li, Wen Hsiung ^e   Zhao, Zhongming ^a,f  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA CONTENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SPECIES COMPARISON; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DOG; GENETICS; GENOME; MAMMAL;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CATTLE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CPG ISLANDS; DOGS; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; RATS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 47149116702     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-5-r79     Document Type: Article

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