Retrotransposons and non-protein coding RNAs

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 493-501

  Mourier, Tobias ^a   Willerslev, Eske ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; RNA genes; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CYTOPLASMIC RNA 200 NUCLEOTIDE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; RETROPOSON; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; REVIEW;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70449711375     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elp036     Document Type: Article

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