Dark matter RNA: Existence, function, and controversy

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Kapranov, Philipp ^a   St Laurent, Georges ^a  

^a St Laurent Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter RNA; Gene; Genomics; Intronic RNA; Linc; Non coding; Transcriptome; Vlinc

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870238817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00060     Document Type: Article

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