A Comparison of 100 Human Genes Using an Alu Element-Based Instability Model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Cook, George W ^a   Konkel, Miriam K ^a   Walker, Jerilyn A ^a   Bourgeois, Matthew G ^a   Fullerton, Mitchell L ^b   Fussell, John T ^c   Herbold, Heath D ^d   Batzer, Mark A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

^c Electrochemical Materials   (United States)

^d Albemarle Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EXON; GENE ATM; GENE BRCA1; GENE DELETION; GENE FANCA; GENE FANCD2; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MSH2; GENE NCOR1; GENE PBRM1; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC MODEL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN GENOME; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RETROPOSON; TUMOR GENE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ALU ELEMENTS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; EXONS; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84878634286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065188     Document Type: Article

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