A matter of life or death: How microsatellites emerge in and vanish from the human genome

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2038-2048

  Kelkar, Yogeshwar D ^a,c   Eckert, Kristin A ^a,b   Chiaromonte, Francesca ^a   Makova, Kateryna D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENN STATE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CALLITRICHINAE; CHIMPANZEE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LIFE CYCLE; MACACA; MICROSATELLITE DEATH; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PRIMATES;

EID: 83055187907     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.122937.111     Document Type: Article

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