Reading TE leaves: New approaches to the identification of transposable element insertions

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 813-820

  Ray, David A ^a   Batzer, Mark A ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPLICON; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MARKER GENE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSON;

GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 79957942181     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.110528.110     Document Type: Review

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