Remarkable sequence conservation of the last intron in the PKD1 gene

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1669-1674

  Rodova, Marianna ^a   Islam, M Rafiq ^a,b   Peterson, Kenneth R ^a   Calvet, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

G triplet; Intron; Polycystic kidney disease; Splicing

Indexed keywords

POLYCYSTIN 1; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE 1 PROTEIN; POLYCYSTIN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EXON; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PUFFER FISH; RAT; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; MAMMALIA; TETRAODONTIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOGS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POINT MUTATION; PROTEINS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRPP CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 3342936637     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg191     Document Type: Article

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