Distributions of transposable elements reveal hazardous zones in mammalian introns

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Ying ^a,b   Romanish, Mark T ^a,b   Mager, Dixie L ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS;

CLOSE PROXIMITY; ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION; GENE TRANSCRIPTIONS; HUMAN GENOMES; LONG TERMINAL REPEATS; MOUSE GENOME; ORIENTATION BIAS; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; STRONG ORIENTATION; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INTRON; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; C57BL MOUSE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MALE; MUTATION;

MAMMALIA;

POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL C; TRPC6 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; RNA SPLICING; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRPC CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 79958117110     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002046     Document Type: Article

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