A-to-I Editing of ALU Repeats

RNA and DNA Editing: Molecular Mechanisms and Their Integration into Biological Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 255-279

  Eisenberg, Eli ^a   Levanon, Erez Y ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Primate specific repetitive elements; Transcriptome wide A to I RNA editing; Untranslated regions (UTRs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889492663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470262269.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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