A Genome-Wide Investigation of Expression Characteristics of Natural Antisense Transcripts in Liver and Muscle Samples of Pigs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Congying ^a   Wei, Rongxing ^a,b   Qiao, Ruimin ^a   Ren, Jun ^a   Yang, Hui ^a   Liu, Chenlong ^a   Huang, Lusheng ^a  

^a JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanchang Working Canine Base   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NATURAL ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 84871409875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052433     Document Type: Article

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