Retrotransposons: Mobile and mutagenic from conception to death

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1589-1594

  Faulkner, Geoffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alu; Genomics; High throughput sequencing; L1; Retrotransposon; SVA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GERM LINE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROGENESIS; RETROELEMENTS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79957561022     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.03.061     Document Type: Review

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