Expression of conjoined genes: another mechanism for gene regulation in eukaryotes.

From the ENCODE project, it is realized that almost every base of the entire human genome is transcribed. One class of transcripts resulting from this arises from the conjoined gene, which is formed by combining the exons of two or more distinct (parent) genes lying on the same strand of a chromosom...

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Main Authors: Tulika Prakash, Vineet K Sharma, Naoki Adati, Ritsuko Ozawa, Naveen Kumar, Yuichiro Nishida, Takayoshi Fujikake, Tadayuki Takeda, Todd D Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20967262/pdf/?tool=EBI