Intergenic and repeat transcription in human, chimpanzee and macaque brains measured by RNA-Seq

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 37-

  Xu, Augix Guohua ^a,b   He, Liu ^a,c   Li, Zhongshan ^a,c   Xu, Ying ^a   Li, Mingfeng ^a   Fu, Xing ^a   Yan, Zheng ^a   Yuan, Yuan ^a   Menzel, Corinna ^d   Li, Na ^e   Somel, Mehmet ^a,b   Hu, Hao ^a,d   Chen, Wei ^d,e   Pääbo, Svante ^b   Khaitovich, Philipp ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^e MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAMMALS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ANNOTATED GENES; EXPRESSION LEVELS; GENETIC INFORMATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; HUMAN BRAIN; INTERGENIC REGIONS; PHENOTYPIC TRAITS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMES;

RNA;

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHIMPANZEE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; INTRON; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEREBELLUM; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MALE; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MACACA MULATTA; MAMMALIA; PAN; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MACACA; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHENOTYPE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77957929225     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000843     Document Type: Article

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