Transcribed processed pseudogenes in the human genome: An intermediate form of expressed retrosequence lacking protein-coding ability

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2374-2383

  Harrison, Paul M ^d   Zheng, Deyou ^a   Zhang, Zhaolei ^c   Carriero, Nicholas ^b   Gerstein, Mark ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SPACER DNA; PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DOCUMENTATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERNET; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X CHROMOSOME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; GENETIC CODE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; RETROELEMENTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 17844396017     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki531     Document Type: Article

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