Cross-species mapping of bidirectional promoters enables prediction of unannotated 5' UTRs and identification of species-specific transcripts

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Bidirectional promoters are shared regulatory regions that influence the expression of two oppositely oriented genes. This type of regulatory architecture is found more frequently than expected by chance in the human genome, yet many...

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Main Authors: Lewin Harris A, Larkin Denis M, Yang Mary Q, Piontkivska Helen, Reecy James, Elnitski Laura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-04-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/189