The Landscape of long noncoding RNA classification

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 239-251

  St Laurent, Georges ^b,c   Wahlestedt, Claes ^d   Kapranov, Philipp ^a,b  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b St Laurent Institute   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation of long non coding RNAs; Classification of long non coding RNAs; Function of long non coding RNAs; LincRNA; LncRNA; Long non coding RNA; Systems biology; Transcriptome; VlincRNA

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CANCER CELL; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENHANCER REGION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE FUNCTION; GENE NOMENCLATURE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA MODIFICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANS SPLICING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84928761213     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2015.03.007     Document Type: Review

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