Imprint switching on human chromosome 15 may involve alternative transcripts of the SNRPN gene

Nature Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 163-170

  Dittrich, Bärbel ^a   Buiting, Karin ^a   Korn, Bernd ^b   Rickard, Sarah ^c   Buxton, Jessica ^c   Saitoh, Shinji ^d,f   Nicholls, Robert D ^d   Poustka, Annemarie ^b   Winterpacht, Andreas ^e   Zabel, Bernhard ^e   Horsthemke, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15; GENE MAPPING; GENE SWITCHING; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POINT MUTATION; POSITION EFFECT; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 10144234124     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1096-163     Document Type: Article

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