intergenic

Examples

• All

• The first and second internal transcribed spacers (ITS-1 and 2) and the intergenic spacer (IGS) have been used as genetic markers for species identification.

  Academic text (2015)

• The five possible positions are as indicated: exonic, partly exonic, exon containing, intronic, and intergenic.

  Blog text (18)

• In contrast, only about half of the LOT regions are close to or overlap genes, and the other half are within intergenic regions.

  Blog text (2)

• Some TRFs preferentially bind intergenic HOT regions.

  Blog text (2)

• Sizes of their two genomes, leader RNA, trailer RNA, and intergenic regions were similar.

  Academic text (2012)

• HOTAIR - HOX antisense intergenic RNA

  Blog text (18)

• "The fact that a lot of these intergenic regions and noncoding regions are active in some sense starts to make you wonder whether canonical genes are really all there is in terms of biological function," says Mark Gerstein of Yale University.

  Academic text (2009)

• For example, it may be more biologically interesting to see the binding of many TRFs at an unannotated intergenic region than at the promoter of a highly expressed gene.

  Blog text (2)

• The long intergenic noncoding RNA regulator of reprogramming, lincRNA-RoR, was found to function as a competitive endogenous RNA in TNBC by significantly limiting the levels of freely expressed miR-145.

  Academic text (2016)

• The intergenic regions of the DNA molecule play a crucial role in regulating gene expression.

Synonyms

I

interlocus

vsintergenic

• Specialized

9.9

Happening between two genes on DNA

is found specifically between genes rather than between other genetic positions

Surface Forms

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Etymology