Expressed sequence tag analysis of human RPE/choroid for the NEIBank project: Over 6000 non-redundant transcripts, novel genes and splice variants

Molecular Vision

Volumn 8, Issue , 2002, Pages 205-220

  Wistow, Graeme ^a   Bernstein, Steven L ^b   Wyatt, M Keith ^a   Fariss, Robert N ^a   Behal, Amita ^a   Touchman, Jeffrey W ^c   Bouffard, Gerard ^c   Smith, Don ^a   Peterson, Katherine ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MATRIX PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; SOMATOMEDIN; TETRASPANIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AGED; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHOROID; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME 19Q; CILIARY BODY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA LIBRARY; DNA MICROARRAY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IRIS; NEIBANK; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHOROID; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RABBITS; RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING; UNITED STATES;

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