What are the determinants of gene expression levels and breadths in the human genome?

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 46-56

  Park, Jungsun ^a,b   Xu, Ke ^c   Park, Taesung ^a,b   Yi, Soojin V ^c  

^a Department of Statistics   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 83455162761     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr436     Document Type: Article

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