The human genome in the LINE of fire

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

Volumn 105, Issue 49, 2008, Pages 19033-19034

  Cordaux, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMPANZEE; DNA DAMAGE; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS;

EID: 58049213977     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810202105     Document Type: Note

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