Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing shapes transcriptome diversity in primates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 12174-12179

  Paz Yaacov, Nurit ^a,b   Levanon, Erez Y ^c   Nevo, Eviatar ^d   Kinar, Yaron ^e   Harmelin, Alon ^f   Jacob Hirsch, Jasmine ^a   Amariglio, Ninette ^a   Eisenberg, Eli ^b   Rechavi, Gideon ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e Compugen Ltd ^*  (Israel)

^f WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alu; Brain; Evolution; RNA modification

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; INOSINE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALU GENE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; RNA STABILITY;

ADENOSINE; ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INOSINE; MACACA MULATTA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; RNA EDITING;

MACACA MULATTA; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 77955455395     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006183107     Document Type: Article

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