Widespread occurrence of antisense transcription in the human genome

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 379-386

  Yelin, Rodrigo ^a   Dahary, Dvir ^a   Sorek, Rotem ^a   Levanon, Erez Y ^a   Goldstein, Orly ^a   Shoshan, Avi ^a   Diber, Alex ^a   Biton, Sharon ^a   Tamir, Yael ^a   Khosravi, Rami ^a   Nemzer, Sergey ^a   Pinner, Elhanan ^a   Walach, Shira ^a   Bernstein, Jeanne ^a   Savitsky, Kinneret ^a   Rotman, Galit ^a  

^a Compugen Ltd ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DNA; GENES;

HUMAN GENOME;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EUKARYOTE; EVALUATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, ANTISENSE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, ANTISENSE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 12244275645     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt808     Document Type: Article

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