Comparative transcriptomics in human and mouse

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 425-440

  Breschi, Alessandra ^a,b   Gingeras, Thomas R ^c   Guigó, Roderic ^a,b  

^a BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85020804515     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2017.19     Document Type: Review

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