Natural antisense transcripts associated with genes involved in eye development

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 913-923

  Alfano, Giovanna ^a   Vitiello, Carmen ^a   Caccioppoli, Cristina ^a   Caramico, Tiziana ^a   Carola, Antonietta ^a   Szego, Michael J ^b   McInnes, Roderick R ^b,c   Auricchio, Alberto ^a   Banfi, Sandro ^a  

^a TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NATURAL ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CRX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RAX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR VAX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE MUTANT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOWN-REGULATION; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 17344371752     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi084     Document Type: Article

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