Shedding light on the dark side of the genome: Overlapping genes in higher eukaryotes

Current Genomics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 509-524

  Boi, S ^a   Solda G ^a   Tenchini, Maria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bidirectional promoters; DNA repair; Double stranded RNA (dsRNA); Gene order; Genome complexity; Imprinting; Natural antisense transcripts (NATs); Nested genes

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN; CALPAIN 3; COATOMER PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN II; NEUROFIBROMIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN A; STAT6 PROTEIN; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA REPAIR; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE ORDER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4444287964     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389202043349020     Document Type: Review

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