Analysis of Intron Sequence Features Associated with Transcriptional Regulation in Human Genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Li, Huimin ^a,b   Chen, Dan ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YUNNAN MINZU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CAAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BD GENE; BRA GENE; BRE GENE; CO GENE; CPG ISLAND; CX GENE; ENDO GENE; ES GENE; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HK GENE; HUMAN; INTRON; KI GENE; LI GENE; LU GENE; MU GENE; MY GENE; OV GENE; PL GENE; PR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SP GENE; ST GENE; TE GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VU GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; NUCLEOTIDES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84867628031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046784     Document Type: Article

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