Inverted repeat structure of the human genome: The X-chromosome contains a preponderance of large, highly homologous inverted repeated that contain testes genes

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 10 A, 2004, Pages 1861-1869

  Warburton, Peter E ^a   Giordano, Joti ^a   Cheung, Fanny ^a   Gelfand, Yefgeniy ^b   Benson, Gary ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; GORILLA; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INVERTED REPEAT; MASKING; MICROCOMPUTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 6344289639     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2542904     Document Type: Article

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