Evidence for conserved post-transcriptional roles of unitary pseudogenes and for frequent bifunctionality of mRNAs

Genome Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Marques, Ana C ^a   Tan, Jennifer ^a   Lee, Sheena ^a   Kong, Lesheng ^a   Heger, Andreas ^a   Ponting, Chris P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; MICRORNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PBCAS4 GENE; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PREDICTION; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; RNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; RNA STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; DOG; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA PROCESSING; RODENT;

EUTHERIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RODENTIA;

EID: 84868676906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-11-r102     Document Type: Article

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