Transposable Elements Re-Wire and Fine-Tune the Transcriptome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Cowley, Michael ^a   Oakey, Rebecca J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALU SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; INTRON; MCTS2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RASGRF1 GENE; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84873507928     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003234     Document Type: Review

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