Genome-wide impact of endogenous antisense transcripts in eukaryotes

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 300-315

  Numata, Koji ^a   Kiyosawa, Hidenori ^b  

^a RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antisense transcript; Genomics; Non coding RNA; Review; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84860311568     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3928     Document Type: Article

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