TERRA: Telomeric repeat-containing RNA

EMBO Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2503-2510

  Luke, Brian ^a,b   Lingner, Joachim ^a,b,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Frontiers in Genetics National Center for Competence in Research   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERIC REPEAT CONTAINING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME REGULATION; FACE MALFORMATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA REPLICATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 69849104275     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.166     Document Type: Review

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