Exon creation and establishment in human genes

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Corvelo, André ^a,b   Eyras, Eduardo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INTRON; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CATTLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

PRIMATES;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; MICE; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 55449113982     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-9-r141     Document Type: Article

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