Modular regulatory principles of large non-coding RNAs

Nature

Volumn 482, Issue 7385, 2012, Pages 339-346

  Guttman, Mitchell ^a,b   Rinn, John L ^a,c  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; LARGE NONCODING RNA; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

DNA; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MAMMAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROTEIN; RNA;

CHROMATIN; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84857066786     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10887     Document Type: Review

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