Transcription of antisense RNA leading to gene silencing and methylation as a novel cause of human genetic disease

Nature Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-165

  Tufarelli, Cristina ^a   Sloane Stanley, Jackie A ^a   Garrick, David ^a   Sharpe, Jackie A ^a   Ayyub, Helena ^a   Wood, William G ^a   Higgs, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DISORDER; HBA2 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHERITANCE; LUC7L GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA METHYLATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STEM CELL; TRANSGENE;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; GLOBINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, ANTISENSE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038581890     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1157     Document Type: Article

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