Alternative splicing and promoter use in the human GABRA2 gene

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 174-183

  Tian, Huijun ^a   Chen, Hui Ju ^a   Cross, Tiffeny H ^a   Edenberg, Howard J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aminobutyric acid; Alternative splicing; GABAA receptor 2 subunit; Neurotransmitter receptor; Promoter function; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALCOHOLISM; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; EXONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL INHIBITION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 20444428695     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbrainres.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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