How prevalent is functional alternative splicing in the human genome?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 68-71

  Sorek, Rotem ^a,b   Shamir, Ron ^a   Ast, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Compugen ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; DATA BASE; EXON; GENE CASSETTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 1642473041     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2003.12.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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