A unified framework of overlapping genes: Towards the origination and endogenic regulation

Genomics

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 231-239

  Ho, Meng Ru ^a   Tsai, Kuo Wang ^b   Lin, Wen chang ^c  

^a BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cis regulatory element; Gene regulation; Local chromatin status; Natural antisense transcript (NAT); Overlapping gene; Promoter

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 1A1; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DNA BARCODING; EXON; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OVERLAPPING GENE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, OVERLAPPING; HUMANS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84865626595     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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