Nature, Nurture, or Chance: Stochastic Gene Expression and Its Consequences

Cell

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 216-226

  Raj, Arjun ^a   van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AGING; CELL CYCLE; CELL FUNCTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; STRESS;

METAZOA;

EID: 53549123008     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.09.050     Document Type: Review

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