Speculations on the role of natural antisense transcripts in mammalian X chromosome evolution

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 151-156

  Kiyosawa, H ^a   Abe, K ^a  

^a RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALLELE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME ARM; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0344530925     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071587     Document Type: Review

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