Mobile DNA elements in the generation of diversity and complexity in the brain

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 497-506

  Erwin, Jennifer A ^a   Marchetto, Maria C ^a   Gage, Fred H ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; BRAIN; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOBILE DNA ELEMENT; MOSAICISM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETT SYNDROME; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSON;

BRAIN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; NEURONS; RETROELEMENTS; RETT SYNDROME; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84904565384     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3730     Document Type: Review

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