Molecular basis of an apolipoprotein[a] null allele: A splice site mutation is associated with deletion of a single exon

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1319-1326

  Cox, Laura A ^a   Jett, Catherine ^a   Hixson, James E ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lipid metabolism; Plasminogen; Protein secretion; Transcript processing

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A; DNA; LIPOPROTEIN A; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0031857249     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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