Genome-wide transcription and the implications for genomic organization

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 413-423

  Kapranov, Philipp ^a   Willingham, Aarron T ^a   Gingeras, Thomas R ^a  

^a Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

RNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA; RNA, ANTISENSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34249088350     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2083     Document Type: Review

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