Alternative splicing in the human, mouse and rat genomes is associated with an increased frequency of exon creation and/or loss

Nature Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-180

  Modrek, Barmak ^a   Lee, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0038617729     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1159     Document Type: Article

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