Evolutionary implications of pericentromeric gene expression in humans

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 47-57

  Mudge, J M ^a   Jackson, M S ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ARM; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TESTIS; TISSUE;

CENTROMERE; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA, SATELLITE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, DUPLICATE; HUMANS; MALE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 9244237106     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080801     Document Type: Article

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