Noise in eukaryotic gene expression

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6932, 2003, Pages 633-637

  Blake, William J ^a   Kærn, Mads ^a   Cantor, Charles R ^a   Collins, J J ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RNA; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GENE EXPRESSIONS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

GENETICS;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0242416539     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01546     Document Type: Article

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