Deep transcriptome profiling of mammalian stem cells supports a regulatory role for retrotransposons in pluripotency maintenance

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 558-566

  Fort, Alexandre ^a   Hashimoto, Kosuke ^a   Yamada, Daisuke ^b   Salimullah, Md ^a   Keya, Chaman A ^a   Saxena, Alka ^a,e   Bonetti, Alessandro ^a   Voineagu, Irina ^a,f   Bertin, Nicolas ^a,g   Kratz, Anton ^a   Noro, Yukihiko ^a   Wong, Chee Hong ^c   De Hoon, Michiel ^a   Andersson, Robin ^d   Sandelin, Albin ^d   Suzuki, Harukazu ^a   Wei, Chia Lin ^c   Koseki, Haruhiko ^b   Hasegawa, Yuki ^a   Forrest, Alistair R R ^a   Carninci, Piero ^a   more..

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e Camden and Islington National Health Service Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; STEM CELL;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASM; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RETROELEMENTS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84901651635     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2965     Document Type: Article

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