Functional gene groups are concentrated within chromosomes, among chromosomes and in the nuclear space of the human genome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 9854-9861

  Thévenin, Annelyse ^a,b   Ein Dor, Liat ^c   Ozery Flato, Michal ^c   Shamir, Ron ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; INTRANUCLEAR SPACE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRANUCLEAR SPACE; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING;

EID: 84962558313     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku667     Document Type: Article

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