Chromatin signatures at transcriptional start sites separate two equally populated yet distinct classes of intergenic long noncoding RNAs

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Marques, Ana C ^a   Hughes, Jim ^b   Graham, Bryony ^b   Kowalczyk, Monika S ^b,c   Higgs, Doug R ^b   Ponting, Chris P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; CHROMATIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; INTERGENIC LONG NONCODING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; ERYTHROBLAST; ERYTHROID CELL; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN GENOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENHANCER REGION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA SPLICING; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; HISTONES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84888232130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-11-r131     Document Type: Article

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