Natural genetic variation impacts expression levels of coding, non-coding, and antisense transcripts in fission yeast

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Clément Ziza, Mathieu ^a,b   Marsellach, Francesc X ^c   Codlin, Sandra ^c   Papadakis, Manos A ^d   Reinhardt, Susanne ^a   Rodríguez Lõpez, María ^c   Martin, Stuart ^c   Marguerat, Samuel ^c,f   Schmidt, Alexander ^e   Lee, Eunhye ^c   Workman, Christopher T ^d   Bähler, Jürg ^c   Beyer, Andreas ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antisense transcription; histone variant; non coding RNA; QTL; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2AZ; PROTEIN CODING RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; SMC5 PROTEIN, S POMBE;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, FUNGAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84924081178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20145123     Document Type: Article

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