Synonymous SNPs provide evidence for selective constraint on human exonic splicing enhancers

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-98

  Carlini, David B ^a   Genut, Jordan E ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exonic splicing enhancers; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Synonymous substitutions

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 31844449496     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0055-x     Document Type: Article

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