Circular RNAs are the predominant transcript isoform from hundreds of human genes in diverse cell types

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Salzman, Julia ^a   Gawad, Charles ^a   Wang, Peter Lincoln ^a   Lacayo, Norman ^a   Brown, Patrick O ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA ISOFORM; ISOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; RNA, CIRCULAR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 84863045982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030733     Document Type: Article

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