Endogenous retroviruses in mammals: An emerging picture of how ervs modify expression of adjacent genes

BioEssays

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 734-738

  Isbel, Luke ^a   Whitelaw, Emma ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Endogenous retrovirus; Genome wide; Transcriptional termination; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; EPIGENETICS; EXON; GAMETE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RETROPOSON; RNA SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MAMMALS; MICE; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84865176253     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201200056     Document Type: Article

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