Critical association of ncRNA with introns

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2357-2366

  Rearick, David ^a   Prakash, Ashwin ^b   McSweeny, Andrew ^a   Shepard, Samuel S ^b   Fedorova, Larisa ^b   Fedorov, Alexei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; DNA HAIRPIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICRORNAS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79953020169     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1080     Document Type: Article

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