Intronic sequences flanking alternatively spliced exons are conserved between human and mouse

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1631-1637

  Sorek, Rotem ^a,b   Ast, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Compugen Ltd ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

3' FLANKING REGION; 5' FLANKING REGION; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0038486897     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1208803     Document Type: Article

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