Effect of the transposable element environment of human genes on gene length and expression

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 259-271

  Jjingo, Daudi ^a   Huda, Ahsan ^a   Gundapuneni, Madhumati ^a,b   Mariño Ramírez, Leonardo ^c,d   Jordan, I King ^a,d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Gene regulation; Genomic design hypothesis; L1; MIR; Selection hypothesis

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSPOSON;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 79960041200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr015     Document Type: Article

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