Detecting transcription of ribosomal protein pseudogenes in diverse human tissues from RNA-seq data

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tonner, Peter ^a   Srinivasasainagendra, Vinodh ^b   Zhang, Shaojie ^a   Zhi, Degui ^b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Pseudogene; Ribosomal protein; RNA seq data; Transcription

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL GLAND; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; BREAST; COLON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPH; MUSCLE; OVARY; PROSTATE; PSEUDOGENE; RNA EDITING; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TESTIS; THYROID GLAND;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PSEUDOGENES; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865087597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-412     Document Type: Article

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