Nearby stop codons in exons of the neurofibromatosis type 1 gene are disparate splice effectors

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 269-277

  Hoffmeyer, Sven ^a   Nürnberg, Peter ^b   Ritter, Heide ^b   Fahsold, Raimund ^d   Leistner, Werner ^c   Kaufmann, Dieter ^a   Krone, Winfrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d Gemeinschaftspraxis   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ARTICLE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; STOP CODON;

EID: 0031937509     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301715     Document Type: Article

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