Evidence for intron length conservation in a set of mammalian genes associated with embryonic development

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2011, Pages

  Seoighe, Cathal ^a   Korir, Paul K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELETION MUTATIONS; DNA-BINDING DOMAIN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC PATTERNING; PATTERN SPECIFICATIONS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RANDOMIZATION PROCEDURE; RECENT RESEARCHES;

CONSERVATION; GENES; MAMMALS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

MAMMALIA;

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MUTATION; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 80053489245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-S9-S16     Document Type: Article

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