Disruption of Visc-2, a brain-expressed conserved long noncoding RNA, does not elicit an overt anatomical or behavioral phenotype

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3572-3585

  Oliver, Peter L ^a   Chodroff, Rebecca A ^a,b   Gosal, Amrit ^a   Edwards, Benjamin ^a   Cheung, Amanda F P ^a   Gomez Rodriguez, Julio ^b   Elliot, Gene ^b   Garrett, Lisa J ^b   Lickiss, Tom ^a   Szele, Francis ^a   Green, Eric D ^b   Molnár, Zoltán ^a   Ponting, Chris P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary conservation; Knockout mouse; Noncoding RNA; Olfactory bulb; Subventricular zone

Indexed keywords

LONG NONCODING RNA VISC 2; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISC-2 LONG NON-CODING RNA, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84948662300     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu196     Document Type: Article

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