Microsatellite Tandem Repeats Are Abundant in Human Promoters and Are Associated with Regulatory Elements

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Sawaya, Sterling ^a   Bagshaw, Andrew ^b   Buschiazzo, Emmanuel ^c   Kumar, Pankaj ^d   Chowdhury, Shantanu ^d,e   Black, Michael A ^a   Gemmell, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d G N Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics   (India)

^e CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; HUMAN GENOME; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; WAVELET ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84873559405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054710     Document Type: Article

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