Ultraconserved elements: Analyses of dosage sensitivity, motifs and boundaries

Genetics

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2277-2293

  Chiang, Charleston W K ^a,b,c   Derti, Adnan ^a   Schwartz, Daniel ^a   Chou, Michael F ^a   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^a,b,c   Wu, C Ting ^a,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NRB 264 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 61849165014     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.096537     Document Type: Article

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