Transcriptome analysis of human tissues and cell lines reveals one dominant transcript per gene

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Gonzàlez Porta, Mar ^a   Frankish, Adam ^b   Rung, Johan ^a   Harrow, Jennifer ^b   Brazma, Alvis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene expression; RNA seq; Splicing; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL RESPIRATION; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PRIMARY TISSUE CULTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL LINE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; PROCEDURES;

CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84879488128     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-7-r70     Document Type: Article

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