Over 20% of human transcripts might form sense-antisense pairs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 4812-4820

  Chen, Jianjun ^e   Sun, Miao ^e   Kent, W James ^a   Huang, Xiaoqiu ^b   Xie, Hanqing ^c   Wang, Wenquan ^d   Zhou, Guolin ^e   Shi, Run Zhang ^e   Rowley, Janet D ^e  

^a Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b Iowa State University ^*  (United States)

^c Synatom Research Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORIENTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN CHROMOSOME;

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 4444376317     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh818     Document Type: Article

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