Human antisense genes have unusually short introns: evidence for selection for rapid transcription.

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Published in Trends Genet on April 01, 2005

Authors

Jianjun Chen1, Miao Sun, Laurence D Hurst, Gordon G Carmichael, Janet D Rowley

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC2115, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. jchen@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

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