Sequencing of hippocampal and cerebellar transcriptomes provides new insights into the complexity of gene regulation in the human brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 541, Issue , 2013, Pages 263-268

  Twine, Natalie A ^a   Janitz, Caroline ^a,b   Wilkins, Marc R ^a   Janitz, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Hippocampus; Human brain; NGFI A binding protein 2; RNA Seq; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; PREALBUMIN; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CEREBELLUM; CLADISTICS; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GLIA CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84876411601     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.02.034     Document Type: Article

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