Exceptional human core promoter nucleotide compositions

Gene

Volumn 475, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 79-86

  Darvish, H ^a,b   Nabi, M Olad ^a   Firouzabadi, S Ghasemi ^a   Karimlou, M ^a   Heidari, A ^a   Najmabadi, H ^a   Ohadi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Composition; Core promoter; Purine; Pyrimidine; STR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; TATA BOX;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 79952699998     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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