Considerations when investigating lncRNA function in vivo

eLife

Volumn 3, Issue August2014, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Bassett, Andrew R ^a   Akhtar, Asifa ^b   Barlow, Denise P ^c   Bird, Adrian P ^d   Brockdorff, Neil ^a   Duboule, Denis ^e   Ephrussi, Anne ^f   Ferguson Smith, Anne C ^g   Gingeras, Thomas R ^h   Haerty, Wilfried ^a   Higgs, Douglas R ⁱ   Miska, Eric A ^j   Ponting, Chris P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RAT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RATS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84921353503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.03058     Document Type: Article

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