Genomic disorders: A window into human gene and genome evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 1765-1771

  Carvalho, Claudia M B ^a   Zhang, Feng ^a   Lupski, James R ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosomal rearrangements; Copy number variation; Low copy repeats; Segmental duplications

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIRTH DEFECT; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; COLOR BLINDNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INFERTILITY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; EXON; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; REVIEW;

HOMINIDAE;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 76549100511     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906222107     Document Type: Article

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