CTRL+INSERT: retrotransposons and their contribution to regulation and innovation of the transcriptome

EMBO Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1131-1144

  Göke, Jonathan ^a   Ng, Huck Hui ^a,b,c  

^a GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

endogenous retrovirus; lncRNA; regulation; retrotransposon; transcription

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; GENETIC MARKER; RETROPOSON;

ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84978884000     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201642743     Document Type: Review

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