Characterisation of inactivation domains and evolutionary strata in human X chromosome through markov segmentation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Kelkar, Ashwin ^a   Thakur, Vivek ^b,c   Ramaswamy, Ramakrishna ^b   Deobagkar, Deepti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; MARKOV SEGMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME MAP; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

MAMMALIA;

DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 71049117286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007885     Document Type: Article

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