Acute intermittent porphyria: Alternative splicing of hydroxymethylbilane synthase mRNA excludes exons 3 and 12

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 63-70

  Ong, Patricia M L ^a,c   Lanyon, W George ^a   Moore, Michael R ^b   Connor, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acute intermittent porphyria; Alternative splicing; Consensus value; Hydroxymethylbilane synthase

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PORPHOBILINOGEN DEAMINASE;

ACUTE INTERMITTENT PORPHYRIA; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; HUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032052751     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.1997.0153     Document Type: Article

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