An abundance of bidirectional promoters in the human genome

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-66

  Trinklein, Nathan D ^a   Force Aldred, Shelley ^a   Hartman, Sara J ^a   Schroeder, Diane I ^a   Otillar, Robert P ^a   Myers, Richard M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0347135948     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1982804     Document Type: Article

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