Roles of long noncoding RNAs in chromosome domains

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Tomita, Saori ^a,b   Abdalla, Mohamed Osama Ali ^a,c   Fujiwara, Saori ^a,b   Yamamoto, Tatsuro ^a   Iwase, Hirotaka ^b   Nakao, Mitsuyoshi ^a,d   Saitoh, Noriko ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEANOR; FUNCTIONAL INTERGENIC REPEATING RNA ELEMENT; HOX TRANSCRIPT ANTISENSE RNA; HOXA TRANSCRIPT AT THE DISTAL TIP; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; METASTASIS ASSOCIATED LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA TRANSCRIPT 1; NUCLEAR PARASPECKLE ASSEMBLY TRANSCRIPT 1; STEROID RECEPTOR RNA ACTIVATOR; TAURINE UPREGULATED GENE 1; TELOMERIC REPEAT CONTAINING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; XIST; CHROMATIN; HISTONE;

AUTOSOME; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER CELL LINE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESISTANCE; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME DOMAIN; CHROMOSOME LOOP; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; HISTONES; HUMANS; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84997496993     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1384     Document Type: Review

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