Low conservation of alternative splicing patterns in the human and mouse genomes

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1313-1320

  Nurtdinov, Ramil N ^a   Artamonova, Irena I ^b   Mironov, Andrei A ^c,d   Gelfand, Mikhail S ^c,d  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c Integrated Genomics   (Russian Federation)

^d STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND SELECTION OF INDUSTRIAL MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CASSETTE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTRON; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; NA(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037669010     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg137     Document Type: Article

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