La secuencia de ADN y el análisis del cromosoma humano 13

A Dunham1, L H Matthews, J Burton

  • 1The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK. ad1@sanger.ac.uk

Nature
|April 2, 2004
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores completaron la secuenciación del cromosoma 13, identificando 633 genes y 296 pseudogenes. Este cromosoma acrocéntrico más grande contiene genes clave de cáncer y trastornos neurológicos, con más del 95% de sus genes codificadores de proteínas ahora identificados.

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