Long non-coding RNAs: New players in cell differentiation and development

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-21

  Fatica, Alessandro ^a   Bozzoni, Irene ^a,b,c,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Pasteur Institute   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOPLASM; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLES; ORGANOGENESIS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84890559595     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3606     Document Type: Review

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