Evidence for common short natural trans sense-antisense pairing between transcripts from protein coding genes

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Wang, Ping ^a,b   Yin, Shanye ^a   Zhang, Zhenguo ^a,b   Xin, Dedong ^a   Hu, Landian ^a   Kong, Xiangyin ^a,c   Hurst, Laurence D ^d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SENSE ANTISENSE PAIRING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ALU ELEMENTS; BASE PAIRING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 57849138429     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-12-r169     Document Type: Article

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