Antisense transcripts with FANTOM2 clone set and their implications for gene regulation

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 6 B, 2003, Pages 1324-1334

  Kiyosawa, Hidenori ^a,b,d   Yamanaka, Itaru ^a   Osato, Naoki ^a   Kondo, Shinji ^a   Arakawa, Takahiro ^c   Carninci, Piero ^c   Kawai, Jun ^c   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ^a,b,c  

^a RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AUTOSOME; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; INTERNET; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, ANTISENSE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MICE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037673656     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.982903     Document Type: Review

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