Most "dark matter" transcripts are associated with known genes

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  van Bakel, Harm ^a   Nislow, Corey ^a,b   Blencowe, Benjamin J ^a,b   Hughes, Timothy R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PROMOTER REGION; RANDOM SAMPLE; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, INTERGENIC; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77952905505     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000371     Document Type: Article

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