Event Detail (Archived)

Studies of a Human Retrotransposon

  • This event already took place in March 2013
  • 301 WRB

Event Details

Type
Seminars in Clinical Research
Speaker(s)
John V. Moran, Ph.D., Gilbert S. Omenn Collegiate Chair of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Open to
Public
Contact
Michelle Romanick
Phone
(212) 327-7316
Sponsor
Zev Williams
(212) 327-7645
zwilliams@rockefeller.edu
Readings
http://clinfo.rockefeller.edu/seminar/LINE-1 Elements in structural variation and disease.pdf
http://clinfo.rockefeller.edu/seminar/LINE-1 Retrotransposition Activity in Human Genomes.pdf
http://clinfo.rockefeller.edu/seminar/Epigenetic silencing of engineered L1 retrotransposition events.pdf
http://clinfo.rockefeller.edu/seminar/Similarities between long interspersed element-1.pdf

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