Sense-antisense gene pairs: Sequence, transcription, and structure are not conserved between human and mouse

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Wood, Emily J ^a   Chin Inmanu, Kwanrutai ^b,c   Jia, Hui ^a,d   Lipovich, Leonard ^a  

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

^b KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d NextBio   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidirectional promoters; Complex loci; Evolution; Expressed sequence tags (ESTs); Long non coding RNA (lncRNA); Sense antisense; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886071296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00183     Document Type: Article

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