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  1. Decapods are an order of crustaceans which includes shrimps, crabs, lobsters and crayfish. They occur worldwide and are of great scientific interest as well as being of ecological and economic importance in fi...

    Authors: Wenyan Nong, Zacary Y. H. Chai, Xiaosen Jiang, Jing Qin, Ka Yan Ma, King Ming Chan, Ting Fung Chan, Billy K. C. Chow, Hoi Shan Kwan, Chris K. C. Wong, Jian-Wen Qiu, Jerome H. L. Hui and Ka Hou Chu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:32

    Content type: Database

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  2. The general combining ability (GCA) of parents in hybrid rice affects not only heterotic level of grain yield and other important agronomic traits, but also performance of grain quality traits of F2 bulk populati...

    Authors: Moaz S. Eltahawy, Nour Ali, Imdad U. Zaid, Dalu Li, Dina Abdulmajid, Lal Bux, Hui Wang and Delin Hong

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:31

    Content type: Research article

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  3. Following the publication of this article [1], the authors noted an error in Figure 11.

    Authors: Sapinder Bali, Kelly Vining, Cynthia Gleason, Hassan Majtahedi, Charles R. Brown and Vidyasagar Sathuvalli

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:30

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2019 20:907

  4. Anthocyanins are common substances with many agro-food industrial applications. However, anthocyanins are generally considered to be found only in natural plants. Our previous study isolated and purified the f...

    Authors: Congfan Bu, Qian Zhang, Jie Zeng, Xiyue Cao, Zhaonan Hao, Dairong Qiao, Yi Cao and Hui Xu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:29

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Fusarium circinatum, the causal agent of pitch canker disease, poses a serious threat to several Pinus species affecting plantations and nurseries. Although Pinus pinaster has shown moderate resistance to F. circ...

    Authors: Laura Hernandez-Escribano, Erik A. Visser, Eugenia Iturritxa, Rosa Raposo and Sanushka Naidoo

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:28

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Autochthonous cattle breeds are an important source of genetic variation because they might carry alleles that enable them to adapt to local environment and food conditions. Original Braunvieh (OB) is a local ...

    Authors: Meenu Bhati, Naveen Kumar Kadri, Danang Crysnanto and Hubert Pausch

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:27

    Content type: Research article

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  8. DNA double-stranded breaks (DSBs) are potentially deleterious events in a cell. The end structures (blunt, 3′- and 5′-overhangs) at DSB sites contribute to the fate of their repair and provide critical informa...

    Authors: Karol Szlachta, Heather M. Raimer, Laurey D. Comeau and Yuh-Hwa Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:25

    Content type: Methodology article

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  9. The genus Trichococcus currently contains nine species: T. flocculiformis, T. pasteurii, T. palustris, T. collinsii, T. patagoniensis, T. ilyis, T. paludicola, T. alkaliphilus, and T. shcherbakoviae. In general,

    Authors: Nikolaos Strepis, Henry D. Naranjo, Jan Meier-Kolthoff, Markus Göker, Nicole Shapiro, Nikos Kyrpides, Hans-Peter Klenk, Peter J. Schaap, Alfons J. M. Stams and Diana Z. Sousa

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:24

    Content type: Research article

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  11. Early sex differentiation genes of zebrafish remain an unsolved mystery due to the difficulty to distinguish the sex of juvenile zebrafish. However, aromatase inhibitors (AIs) could direct juvenile zebrafish s...

    Authors: Lu Chen, Li Wang, Qiwei Cheng, Yi-Xuan Tu, Zhuang Yang, Run-Ze Li, Zhi-Hui Luo and Zhen-Xia Chen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:22

    Content type: Research article

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  13. The domestic cat (Felis catus) is an important companion animal and is used as a large animal model for human disease. However, the comprehensive study of adaptive immunity in this species is hampered by the lack...

    Authors: Araya Radtanakatikanon, Stefan M. Keller, Nikos Darzentas, Peter F. Moore, Géraldine Folch, Viviane Nguefack Ngoune, Marie-Paule Lefranc and William Vernau

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:20

    Content type: Research article

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  14. Growth hormone inducible transmembrane protein (GHITM) is a highly conserved transmembrane protein. This study was conducted to investigate the role of GHITM gene in the apoptosis and growth of the golden appl...

    Authors: Wenchao Yu, Baolu Zhang, Hongce Song, Rui Zhan, Lingling Li, Cheng He, Qiuyun Jiang, Xiaona Wang, Lei Wei, Nannan Zhao, Wen Guo and Xiaotong Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:19

    Content type: Research article

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  15. Potato virus Y (PVY) is a major pathogen of potatoes with major impact on global agricultural production. Resistance to PVY can be achieved by engineering potatoes to express a recessive, resistant allele of e...

    Authors: Pablo A. Gutierrez Sanchez, Lavanya Babujee, Helena Jaramillo Mesa, Erica Arcibal, Megan Gannon, Dennis Halterman, Molly Jahn, Jiming Jiang and Aurélie M. Rakotondrafara

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:18

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  16. Daphnia species reproduce by cyclic parthenogenesis involving both sexual and asexual reproduction. The sex of the offspring is environmentally determined and mediated via endocrine signalling by the mother. Inte...

    Authors: Jouni Kvist, Camila Gonçalves Athanàsio, Michael E. Pfrender, James B. Brown, John K. Colbourne and Leda Mirbahai

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:17

    Content type: Research article

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  17. The genus Borrelia comprises spirochaetal bacteria maintained in natural transmission cycles by tick vectors and vertebrate reservoir hosts. The main groups are represented by a species complex including the caus...

    Authors: Konstantin V. Kuleshov, Gabriele Margos, Volker Fingerle, Joris Koetsveld, Irina A. Goptar, Mikhail L. Markelov, Nadezhda M. Kolyasnikova, Denis S. Sarksyan, Nina P. Kirdyashkina, German A. Shipulin, Joppe W. Hovius and Alexander E. Platonov

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:16

    Content type: Research article

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  18. Cotton grows in altering environments that are often unfavorable or stressful for its growth and development. Consequently, the plant must cope with abiotic stresses such as soil salinity, drought, and excessi...

    Authors: Yanchao Xu, Richard Odongo Magwanga, Xiu Yang, Dingsha Jin, Xiaoyan Cai, Yuqing Hou, Yangyang Wei, Zhongli Zhou, Kunbo Wang and Fang Liu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:15

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  19. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a cause of nosocomial infections, especially in patients with cystic fibrosis and burn wounds. PAO1 strain and its derivatives are widely used to study the biology of this bacterium, how...

    Authors: Adam Kawalek, Karolina Kotecka, Magdalena Modrzejewska, Jan Gawor, Grazyna Jagura-Burdzy and Aneta Agnieszka Bartosik

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:14

    Content type: Research article

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  20. Myopia is one of the most common vision defects worldwide. microRNAs can regulate the target gene expression, influencing the development of diseases.

    Authors: Dadong Guo, Meihua Ding, Xiaoli Song, Yuanyuan Sun, Guoping Li, Zonghong Li, Huixia Wei, Jianfeng Wu, Wenjun Jiang and Hongsheng Bi

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:13

    Content type: Research article

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  21. Domain of unknown function (DUF) proteins represent a number of gene families that encode functionally uncharacterized proteins in eukaryotes. The DUF4228 gene family is one of these families in plants that has n...

    Authors: Qi Yang, Xiaocui Niu, Xiaona Tian, Xiujuan Zhang, Jingyu Cong, Ruigang Wang, Guosheng Zhang and Guojing Li

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:12

    Content type: Research article

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  22. Pteropods are planktonic gastropods that are considered as bio-indicators to monitor impacts of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems. In order to gain insight into their adaptive potential to future enviro...

    Authors: Le Qin Choo, Thijs M. P. Bal, Marvin Choquet, Irina Smolina, Paula Ramos-Silva, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Martina Kopp, Galice Hoarau and Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:11

    Content type: Research article

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  24. In forest trees, genetic markers have been used to understand the genetic architecture of natural populations, identify quantitative trait loci, infer gene function, and enhance tree breeding. Recently, new, e...

    Authors: Glenn T. Howe, Keith Jayawickrama, Scott E. Kolpak, Jennifer Kling, Matt Trappe, Valerie Hipkins, Terrance Ye, Stephanie Guida, Richard Cronn, Samuel A. Cushman and Susan McEvoy

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:9

    Content type: Research article

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  25. Pineapple is the most important crop with CAM photosynthesis, but its molecular biology is underexplored. MADS-box genes are crucial transcription factors involving in plant development and several biological ...

    Authors: Xiaodan Zhang, Mahpara Fatima, Ping Zhou, Qing Ma and Ray Ming

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:8

    Content type: Research article

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  26. The broad host range pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum infects over 400 plant species and causes substantial yield losses in crops worldwide. Secondary metabolites are known to play important roles in the virulen...

    Authors: Carolyn Graham-Taylor, Lars G. Kamphuis and Mark C. Derbyshire

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:7

    Content type: Research article

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  28. Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is an important cause of acute respiratory illness in young children. Whole genome sequencing enables better identification of transmission events and outbreaks, which is not alway...

    Authors: Everlyn Kamau, John W. Oketch, Zaydah R. de Laurent, My V. T. Phan, Charles N. Agoti, D. James Nokes and Matthew Cotten

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:5

    Content type: Methodology article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2020 21:83

  29. Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is a process of somatic cells that dedifferentiate to totipotent embryonic stem cells and generate embryos in vitro. Longan SE has been established and wildly used as model system fo...

    Authors: Yukun Chen, Xiaoping Xu, Zhuanxia Liu, Zihao Zhang, Xu XuHan, Yuling Lin and Zhongxion Lai

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:4

    Content type: Research article

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  30. Rhodococci are industrially important soil-dwelling Gram-positive bacteria that are well known for both nitrile hydrolysis and oxidative metabolism of aromatics. Rhodococcus rhodochrous ATCC BAA-870 is capable of...

    Authors: Joni Frederick, Fritha Hennessy, Uli Horn, Pilar de la Torre Cortés, Marcel van den Broek, Ulrich Strych, Richard Willson, Charles A. Hefer, Jean-Marc G. Daran, Trevor Sewell, Linda G. Otten and Dean Brady

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:3

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  31. The clinical success of immune checkpoint inhibitors demonstrates that reactivation of the human immune system delivers durable responses for some patients and represents an exciting approach for cancer treatm...

    Authors: Wenyan Zhong, Jeremy S. Myers, Fang Wang, Kai Wang, Justin Lucas, Edward Rosfjord, Judy Lucas, Andrea T. Hooper, Sharon Yang, Lu Anna Lemon, Magali Guffroy, Chad May, Jadwiga R. Bienkowska and Paul A. Rejto

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:2

    Content type: Research article

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  32. Following the publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in Fig. 2 of the PDF version of their article.

    Authors: Jason D. Maarsingh, Shanshan Yang, Jin G. Park and Shelley E. Haydel

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 21:1

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2019 20:942

  33. Whole-genome shotgun sequencing, which stitches together millions of short sequencing reads into a single genome, ushered in the era of modern genomics and led to a rapid expansion of the number of genome sequ...

    Authors: Kelsi A. Lindblad, Jananan S. Pathmanathan, Sandrine Moreira, John R. Bracht, Robert P. Sebra, Elizabeth R. Hutton and Laura F. Landweber

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1037

    Content type: Research article

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  34. Alternaria brassicae, a necrotrophic pathogen, causes Alternaria Leaf Spot, one of the economically important diseases of Brassica crops. Many other Alternaria spp. such as A. brassicicola and A. alternata are kn...

    Authors: Sivasubramanian Rajarammohan, Kumar Paritosh, Deepak Pental and Jagreet Kaur

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1036

    Content type: Research article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2020 21:82

  35. Fargesia macclureana (Poaceae) is a woody bamboo species found on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) approximately 2000 ~ 3800 m above sea level. It rarely blossoms in the QTP, but it flowered 20 days after growing ...

    Authors: Ying Li, Chunxia Zhang, Kebin Yang, Jingjing Shi, Yulong Ding and Zhimin Gao

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1035

    Content type: Research article

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  36. Grape buds exhibit non-uniform, or delayed, break in early spring in subtropical regions because the accumulation of chilling is insufficient. Hydrogen cyanamide (H2CN2, HC) can partially replace chilling to effe...

    Authors: Dong Liang, Xiaojing Huang, Yanqiu Shen, Tian Shen, Huifen Zhang, Lijin Lin, Jin Wang, Qunxian Deng, Xiulan Lyu and Hui Xia

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1034

    Content type: Research article

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  37. Production conditions of layer chicken can vary in terms of temperature or diet energy content compared to the controlled environment where pure-bred selection is undertaken. The aim of this study was to bette...

    Authors: F. Jehl, C. Désert, C. Klopp, M. Brenet, A. Rau, S. Leroux, M. Boutin, L. Lagoutte, K. Muret, Y. Blum, D. Esquerré, D. Gourichon, T. Burlot, A. Collin, F. Pitel, A. Benani…

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1033

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  38. MYC transcriptional factors are members of the bHLH (basic helix-loop-helix) superfamily, and play important roles in plant growth and development. Recent studies have revealed that some MYCs are involved in the ...

    Authors: Jian-fang Bai, Yu-kun Wang, Li-ping Guo, Xiao-ming Guo, Hao-yu Guo, Shao-hua Yuan, Wen-jing Duan, Zihan Liu, Chang-ping Zhao, Feng-ting Zhang and Li-ping Zhang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1032

    Content type: Research article

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  39. The proximal femoral head separation (FHS) or epiphysiolysis is a prevalent disorder affecting the chicken femur epiphysis, being considered a risk factor to infection which can cause bacterial chondronecrosis...

    Authors: Jane de Oliveira Peixoto, Igor Ricardo Savoldi, Adriana Mércia Guaratini Ibelli, Maurício Egídio Cantão, Fátima Regina Ferreira Jaenisch, Poliana Fernanda Giachetto, Matthew Lee Settles, Ricardo Zanella, Jorge Augusto Petroli Marchesi, José Rodrigo Pandolfi, Luiz Lehmann Coutinho and Mônica Corrêa Ledur

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1031

    Content type: Research article

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  40. Mycobacterium pinnipedii, a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex (MTBC), is capable of infecting several host species, including humans. Recently, ancient DNA from this organism was recovered from pre...

    Authors: Taiana T. Silva-Pereira, Cássia Y. Ikuta, Cristina K. Zimpel, Naila C. S. Camargo, Antônio F. de Souza Filho, José S. Ferreira Neto, Marcos B. Heinemann and Ana M. S. Guimarães

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1030

    Content type: Research article

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  41. The mammalian intestine is a complex biological system that exhibits functional plasticity in its response to diverse stimuli to maintain homeostasis. To improve our understanding of this plasticity, we perfor...

    Authors: Nirupama Benis, Jerry M. Wells, Mari A. Smits, Soumya Kanti Kar, Bart van der Hee, Vitor A. P. Martins dos Santos, Maria Suarez-Diez and Dirkjan Schokker

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1028

    Content type: Research article

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  42. Europeans and American Indians were major genetic ancestry of Hispanics in the U.S. These ancestral groups have markedly different incidence rates and outcomes in many types of cancers. Therefore, the genetic ...

    Authors: Li-Ju Wang, Catherine W. Zhang, Sophia C. Su, Hung-I H. Chen, Yu-Chiao Chiu, Zhao Lai, Hakim Bouamar, Amelie G. Ramirez, Francisco G. Cigarroa, Lu-Zhe Sun and Yidong Chen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 12):1007

    Content type: Research

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 12

  43. The genome architecture mapping (GAM) technique can capture genome-wide chromatin interactions. However, besides the known systematic biases in the raw GAM data, we have found a new type of systematic bias. It...

    Authors: Tong Liu and Zheng Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 12):1006

    Content type: Research

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 12

  44. The goal of this editorial is to summarize the 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2019) conference that took place on June 9–11, 2019 in The Ohio State University, Columbu...

    Authors: Ewy Mathé, Chi Zhang, Kai Wang, Xia Ning, Yan Guo and Zhongming Zhao

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 12):1005

    Content type: Introduction

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 12

  45. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are crucial in modulating RNA metabolism in eukaryotes thereby controlling an extensive network of RBP-RNA interactions. Although previous studies on the conservation of RBP targets...

    Authors: Aarthi Ramakrishnan and Sarath Chandra Janga

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 12):1004

    Content type: Research

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 12

  46. The coordination of genomic functions is a critical and complex process across biological systems such as phenotypes or states (e.g., time, disease, organism, environmental perturbation). Understanding how the...

    Authors: Nam D. Nguyen, Ian K. Blaby and Daifeng Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 12):1003

    Content type: Methodology

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 12

  47. Pseudouridine modification is most commonly found among various kinds of RNA modification occurred in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. This biochemical event has been proved to occur in multiple types of RNAs,...

    Authors: Thanh-Hoang Nguyen-Vo, Quang H. Nguyen, Trang T.T. Do, Thien-Ngan Nguyen, Susanto Rahardja and Binh P. Nguyen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 10):971

    Content type: Methodology

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 10

  48. Read alignment and transcript assembly are the core of RNA-seq analysis for transcript isoform discovery. Nonetheless, current tools are not designed to be scalable for analysis of full-length bulk or single c...

    Authors: Andrian Yang, Abhinav Kishore, Benjamin Phipps and Joshua W. K. Ho

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 10):927

    Content type: Software

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 10

  49. Identification of antibiotic resistance genes from environmental samples has been a critical sub-domain of gene discovery which is directly connected to human health. However, it is drawing extraordinary atten...

    Authors: Haobin Yao and Siu-Ming Yiu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 10):914

    Content type: Research

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 10

  50. Super-enhancer RNAs (seRNAs) are a kind of noncoding RNA transcribed from super-enhancer regions. The regulation mechanism and functional role of seRNAs are still unclear. Although super-enhancers play a criti...

    Authors: Hao-Chun Chang, Hsuan-Cheng Huang, Hsueh-Fen Juan and Chia-Lang Hsu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 10):896

    Content type: Research

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 10

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