Digital Genotyping of Macrosatellites and Multicopy Genes Reveals Novel Biological Functions Associated with Copy Number Variation of Large Tandem Repeats

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Brahmachary, Manisha ^a   Guilmatre, Audrey ^a,b   Quilez, Javier ^a   Hasson, Dan ^a   Borel, Christelle ^a,c   Warburton, Peter ^a   Sharp, Andrew J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LARGE TANDEM REPEAT; MACROSATELLITE REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; HYLOBATES; MACACA; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATE;

SATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, SATELLITE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; HYLOBATES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MACACA; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMATES; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84903441707     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004418     Document Type: Article

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