intergenic region
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region
noun[C]
uk/ˈriː.dʒən/us/ˈriː.dʒən/
a particular area or part of the world, or any of the large official areas into which a country ...
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Theintergenicregion, containing the origin, is shown in detail in the lower portion of the figure.
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At eachintergenicregion, between 5 and 10% of the polymerase molecules detach from the template.
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The length of theintergenicregionwas also quite variable.
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These genes form a coordinately regulated unit and are separated by a largeintergenicregionof 90 kb in the mouse, thought to contain regulatory elements.
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For this purpose, non-coding sequences were considered as intergenic regions.
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These insertions occur not only in the intergenic regions, but also in some of the coding regions.
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The process was repeated for all intergenic regions and results summed over all regions.
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The widespread synteny between the intergenic regions analysed precludes the first hypothesis.
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The criteria for organization into putative operons were as follows: (i) genes are transcribed in the same orientation, (ii) intergenic regions are <200 base-pairs, (iii) genes exhibit similar transcription profiles.
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The criteria for organization into putative operons were as follows: (i) genes are transcribed in the same orientation, (ii) intergenic regions are < 200 base-pairs, (iii) genes exhibit similar transcription profiles.
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The relative frequency of each position is the number of times that position is present in intergenic regions (or hits), divided by the frequency of all positions.
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The genes are flanked on either side by conserved transcription start and stop signals, and have intergenic regions ranging from 1 to 30nt.
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Introns make up 26% and intergenic regions 47% of the genome.
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Authors discovered that most identified enhancers (55.6%) were placed within introns, particularly in the first intron and intergenic regions.
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Size variability within the groups occurs mainly as a result of insertions and deletions of the intergenic regions.
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From the recent experiments, they found that in a bacterial genome a considerable segment of the intergenic regions are actively transcribed.
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