Natural antisense transcripts: Sound or silence?

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-131

  Werner, Andreas ^a,c   Berdal, Ariane ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Gene regulation; Overlapping genes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MICRORNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER MODEL; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ALLELES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; RNA, ANTISENSE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646158501     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00124.2005     Document Type: Review

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