New small nuclear RNA gene-like transcriptional units as sources of regulatory transcripts

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0174-0184

  Pagano, Aldo ^a,b   Castelnuovo, Manuele ^a   Tortelli, Federico ^a   Ferrari, Roberto ^c   Dieci, Giorgio ^c   Cancedda, Ranieri ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 33847251953     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030001     Document Type: Article

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