Human cis natural antisense transcripts initiated by transposable elements

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 53-56

  Conley, Andrew B ^a   Miller, Wolfgang J ^b   Jordan, I King ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CIS ISOMER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; RNA, ANTISENSE; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 38549133553     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2007.11.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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