Long-range autocorrelations of CpG islands in the human genome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Koester, Benjamin ^a   Rea, Thomas J ^a   Templeton, Alan R ^c   Szalay, Alexander S ^b   Sing, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CPG ISLANDS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS;

EID: 84855667029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029889     Document Type: Article

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