AluScan: A method for genome-wide scanning of sequence and structure variations in the human genome

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mei, Lingling ^a   Ding, Xiaofan ^a   Tsang, Shui Ying ^a   Pun, Frank W ^a   Ng, Siu Kin ^a   Yang, Jianfeng ^a   Zhao, Cunyou ^a   Li, Dezhi ^b   Wan, Weiqing ^b,c   Yu, Chi Hung ^a,d   Tan, Tze Ching ^a,d   Poon, Wai Sang ^a,e   Leung, Gilberto K ^a,f   Ng, Ho Keung ^a,e   Zhang, Liwei ^b,c   Xue, Hong ^a,c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALUSCAN; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON; ALU SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY;

ALU ELEMENTS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MALE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 81155151513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-564     Document Type: Article

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