Many LINE1 elements contribute to the transcriptome of human somatic cells

Genome Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Rangwala, Sanjida H ^a   Zhang, Lili ^a   Kazazian Jr, Haig H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FAMILY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; MOLECULAR CLONING; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BINDING SITE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 6; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; LYMPHOCYTES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 76249132036     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-9-r100     Document Type: Article

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