The amazing complexity of the human transcriptome

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 894-897

  Frith, Martin C ^a,b   Pheasant, Michael ^a   Mattick, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFER RNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 23644443393     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201459     Document Type: Note

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