Sequence analysis and characterization of active human alu subfamilies based on the 1000 genomes pilot project

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2608-2622

  Konkel, Miriam K ^a   Walker, Jerilyn A ^a   Hotard, Ashley B ^a   Ranck, Megan C ^a   Fontenot, Catherine C ^a   Storer, Jessica ^a,b   Stewart, Chip ^c,d   Marth, Gabor T ^c,e   Batzer, Mark A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Cancer Genome Computational Analysis   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobilome; Retrotransposon; Structural variation

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ALU ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84959276574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv167     Document Type: Article

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