Pervasive Transcription of the Human Genome Produces Thousands of Previously Unidentified Long Intergenic Noncoding RNAs

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Hangauer, Matthew J ^a   Vaughn, Ian W ^a   McManus, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

DNA, INTERGENIC; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, LONG UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84879671055     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003569     Document Type: Article

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