Deep sequencing of subcellular RNA fractions shows splicing to be predominantly co-transcriptional in the human genome but inefficient for lncRNAs

Genome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1616-1625

  Tilgner, Hagen ^a,c   Knowles, David G ^a   Johnson, Rory ^a   Davis, Carrie A ^b   Chakrabortty, Sudipto ^b   Djebali, Sarah ^a   Curado, João ^a   Snyder, Michael ^c   Gingeras, Thomas R ^b   Guigó, Roderic ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG NONCODING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CYTOSOL; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPLICEOSOME;

CHROMATIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, LONG UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPLICEOSOMES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865777822     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.134445.111     Document Type: Article

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