Alternative splicing in PAX2 generates a new reading frame and an extended conserved coding region at the carboxy terminus

Human Genetics

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 371-375

  Tavassoli, Kamiab ^a   Rüger, Wolfgang ^b   Horst, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EXON; HUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 2642638745     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050644     Document Type: Article

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