Biological functions of natural antisense transcripts
In theory, the human genome is large enough to keep its roughly 20,000 genes well separated. In practice, genes are clustered; even more puzzling, in many cases both DNA strands of a protein coding gene are transcribed. The resulting natural antisense transcripts can be a blessing and curse, as many...
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BioMed Central
2013
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3626547/ |