Novel splicing events of untranslated first exons in human estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) gene

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-104

  Okuda, Yasuhiko ^a   Hirata, Shuji ^a   Watanabe, Naoko ^a   Shoda, Tomoko ^a   Kato, Junzo ^b   Hoshi, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Estrogen receptor alpha gene; Human; Messenger ribonucleic acid; Untranslated exons

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM; EXON; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0037295515     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.50.97     Document Type: Article

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