Noncoding RNA genes

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 695-699

  Eddy, Sean R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ALGORITHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA GENE;

EID: 0032785505     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(99)00022-2     Document Type: Review

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