Naturally occurring antisense: Transcriptional leakage or real overlap?

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 364-368

  Dahary, Dvir ^a,b   Elroy Stein, Orna ^b   Sorek, Rotem ^a  

^a Compugen Ltd ^*  (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; PROTEIN P53;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PLASTICITY; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; GENOME; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TETRAODONTIFORMES;

MAMMALIA; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, ANTISENSE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MAMMALS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TETRAODONTIFORMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 15544380198     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3308405     Document Type: Article

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