When new exons are born

Heredity

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 279-280

  Sorek, R ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; EXON; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NOTE; PRIMATE;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PRIMATES;

EID: 70349490785     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.62     Document Type: Note

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