Identification of a novel fusion transcript between human relaxin-1 (RLN1) and human relaxin-2 (RLN2) in prostate cancer

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 420, Issue , 2016, Pages 159-168

  Tevz, Gregor ^a,f   McGrath, Sean ^b   Demeter, Ryan ^b   Magrini, Vincent ^b   Jeet, Varinder ^a   Rockstroh, Anja ^a   McPherson, Stephen ^a   Lai, John ^a   Bartonicek, Nenad ^d   An, Jiyuan ^a   Batra, Jyotsna ^a   Dinger, Marcel E ^d,e   Lehman, Melanie L ^a,c   Williams, Elizabeth D ^a   Nelson, Colleen C ^a,c  

^a TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fusion; Prostate cancer; RLN1; RLN2; RNA Seq; SMRT sequencing

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ISOPROTEIN; RELAXIN; RNA; SERELAXIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; ONCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER TISSUE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE PRODUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELAXIN 1 GENE; HUMAN RELAXIN 2 GENE; HUMAN TISSUE; LNCAP CELL LINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; PROSTATE TUMOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANDROGENS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EXONS; HUMANS; MALE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RELAXIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84951325478     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2015.10.011     Document Type: Article

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