Retrotransposition of gene transcripts leads to structural variation in mammalian genomes

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ewing, Adam D ^a   Ballinger, Tracy J ^a   Earl, Dent ^a   Harris, Christopher C ^c   Ding, Li ^c   Wilson, Richard K ^c   Haussler, David ^a,b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EXON; GENE INSERTION; GENE RETROCOPY INSERTION POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GERM LINE; HUMAN; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEOPLASM; PAN TROGLODYTES; RETROPOSON;

MAMMALIA; MUS; PAN;

MESSENGER RNA; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC STRUCTURAL VARIATION; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PAN TROGLODYTES; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84879028815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-3-r22     Document Type: Article

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