Fine structure of the murine leptin receptor gene: Splice site suppression is required to form two alternatively spliced transcripts

Genomics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 264-270

  Chua Jr , Streamson C ^a   Koutras, Iakovos K ^a   Han, Lily ^a   Liu, Shun Mei ^a   Kay, Joy ^a   Young, Sun J ^a   Chung, Wendy K ^a   Leibel, Rudolph L ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MURINAE;

EID: 0030685790     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4962     Document Type: Article

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