RNA

Yong Ma1, Adrian Creanga, Lawrence Lum

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.

Nature
|September 12, 2006
PubMed
まとめ

RNA干渉 (RNAi) スクリーンにおける標的外効果 (OTEs) は,長い二重鎖RNA (dsRNAs) にもかかわらず,ドロソフィラに共通しています. 遺伝子とdsRNAのタンデムリピートが,ゲノム全体のRNAiスクリーンで誤った陽性を引き起こすことがよくあります.

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