Patterns of transposable element expression and insertion in cancer

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2016, Pages

  Clayton, Evan A ^a,b   Wang, Lu ^a,c   Rishishwar, Lavanya ^a,c,d   Wang, Jianrong ^e   McDonald, John F ^a,b   Jordan, I King ^a,c,d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Ovarian Cancer Institute   (United States)

^c PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute   (Colombia)

^d Applied Sciences Laboratory   (United States)

^e Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alu; Bioinformatics; L1; LINE 1; Mutation; Retrotransposons; SVA; Tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026745831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296889X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2016.00076     Document Type: Article

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