Functionality or transcriptional noise? Evidence for selection within long noncoding RNAs

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 556-565

  Ponjavic, Jasmina ^a   Ponting, Chris P ^a   Lunter, Gerton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, INTERGENIC; HUMANS; MICE; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

RATTUS;

EID: 34248162440     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6036807     Document Type: Article

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