The short-sequence designs of isochores from the human genome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 37, 2008, Pages 13971-13976

  Costantini, Maria ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Chromatin structure; Codon usage; Dinucleotides; Trinucleotides

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; LIGAND; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CODON USAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; DNA SEQUENCE; FRACTIONATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; ISOCHORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; THERMOSTABILITY; VERTEBRATE;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; ISOCHORES;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 52949143105     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803916105     Document Type: Article

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