Alu elements: An intrinsic source of human genome instability

Current Opinion in Virology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 639-645

  Ade, Catherine ^a   Roy Engel, Astrid M ^a   Deininger, Prescott L ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALU SEQUENCE; BASE PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MUTAGENESIS; NONALLELIC HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; TARGET PRIMED REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION;

ALU ELEMENTS; DISEASE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL;

EID: 84890116607     PISSN: 18796257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2013.09.002     Document Type: Review

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