Title
Overlapping genes in vertebrate genomes.
Abstract
Overlapping genes in mammalian genomes are unexpected phenomena even though hundreds of pairs of protein coding overlapping genes have been reported so far. Overlapping genes can be divided into different categories based on direction of transcription as well as on sequence segments being shared between overlapping coding regions. The biologic functions of natural antisense transcripts, their involvement in physiological processes and gene regulation in living organisms are not fully understood. Number of documented examples indicates that they may exert control at various levels of gene expression, such as transcription, mRNA processing, splicing, stability, transport, and translation. Similarly, evolutionary origin of such genes is not known, existing hypotheses can explain only selected cases of mammalian gene overlaps which could originate as result of rearrangements, overprinting and/or adoption of signals in the neighboring gene locus.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2004.12.006
Computational Biology and Chemistry
Keywords
Field
DocType
Overlapping genes,Anti-sense,Anti-transcript,Evolution,Genome organization
Genome,Gene cluster,Gene,Biology,Coding region,Gene prediction,Regulation of gene expression,Bioinformatics,Locus (genetics),Genetics,Pair-rule gene
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
1
1476-9271
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.78
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Izabela Makalowska1477.26
Chiao-Feng Lin291.64
W Makalowski3426.75