Making sense of Dlx1 antisense RNA

Developmental Biology

Volumn 376, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 224-235

  Kraus, Petra ^a   Sivakamasundari, V ^a   Lim, Siew Lan ^a   Xing, Xing ^a   Lipovich, Leonard ^b   Lufkin, Thomas ^a  

^a GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Dlx; Gene targeting; Long non coding RNA; NAT; Natural antisense transcripts

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX5; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DLX1 ANTISENSE GENE; DLX1 GENE; DLX5 GENE; DLX6 GENE; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA HYBRIDIZATION;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84875050069     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.01.035     Document Type: Article

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