Completing the human genome: the progress and challenge of satellite DNA assembly

Chromosome Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 421-426

  Miga, Karen H ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

acrocentric repeats; assembly; centromere; pericentromeric heterochromatin; Satellite DNA

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA; HETEROCHROMATIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; BIOLOGY; CENTROMERE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; PROCEDURES;

CENTROMERE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, SATELLITE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS;

EID: 84947492787     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-015-9488-2     Document Type: Article

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