Telomeric repeats far from the ends: Mechanisms of origin and role in evolution

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 219-228

  Ruiz Herrera, A ^a   Nergadze, S G ^a   Santagostino, M ^a   Giulotto, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRACHROMOSOMAL TELOMERIC SEQUENCE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INVERTEBRATES; MICE; PRIMATES; RATS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; VERTEBRATES;

MAMMALIA; PAN; RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 59649117092     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000167807     Document Type: Review

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