Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing

Inactivation of a gene, portion of a chromosome, or an entire chromosome by epigenetic reprogramming, after transcription. Aka RNAi, RNA interference.

See gene silencing and transcriptional gene silencing.

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transcriptional gene silencing (... reprogramming, during transcription. See posttranscriptional gene silencing and gene silencing.)
gene silencing (... reprogramming. See post-transcriptional gene silencing and transcriptional gene silencing.)
RNA interference (... the function of the gene that generated them. See posttranscriptional gene silencing.)
double-stranded RNA (... and post-transcriptional gene silencing in the cytoplasm of a ...)
small RNAs (Class of short RNA molecules of 21-28 nucleotides that have inhibition and tagging roles related ...)