Structure of the human laminin γ2 chain gene (LAMC2): Alternative splicing with different tissue distribution of two transcripts

Genomics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 54-64

  Airenne, Tomi ^a   Haakana, Heli ^a   Sainio, Kirsi ^c   Kallunki, Tuula ^a   Kallunki, Pekka ^a   Sariola, Hannu ^c   Tryggvason, Karl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; LAMININ; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; EMBRYO; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; EXON; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029984364     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0076     Document Type: Article

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