Structural relationships between highly conserved elements and genes in vertebrate genomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Sun, Hong ^a,b,c,e   Skogerbø, Geir ^d   Wang, Zhen ^a   Liu, Wei ^b   Li, Yixue ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI CENTER FOR BIOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^e Shanghai TRAIL Biotechnological Company LTD   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TETRAODONTIFORMES; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

DANIO RERIO; RATTUS; TETRAODON; VERTEBRATA;

SPACER DNA;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 56649106344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003727     Document Type: Article

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