Pervasive transcription of the eukaryotic genome: Functional indices and conceptual implications

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 407-423

  Dinger, Marcel E ^a   Amaral, Paulo P ^a   Mercer, Timothy R ^a   Mattick, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional RNA; Gene definition; Non coding RNA; Pervasive transcription

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; HUMANS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70449707787     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elp038     Document Type: Article

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