GC skew is a conserved property of unmethylated CpG island promoters across vertebrates

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 9729-9741

  Hartono, Stella R ^a   Korf, Ian F ^a   Chédin, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; DNA;

AGE; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GC SKEW; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; EXONS; GENES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84950143504     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv811     Document Type: Article

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