Repetitive elements may comprise over Two-Thirds of the human genome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  de Koning, A P Jason ^a   Gu, Wanjun ^a,c   Castoe, Todd A ^a   Batzer, Mark A ^b   Pollock, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Southeast University   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; ALU SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EUKARYOTA;

ALGORITHMS; ALU ELEMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84855281420     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002384     Document Type: Article

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