Comparative Analysis Identifies Exonic Splicing Regulatory Sequences-The Complex Definition of Enhancers and Silencers

Molecular Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 769-781

  Goren, Amir ^a   Ram, Oren ^a   Amit, Maayan ^a   Keren, Hadas ^a   Lev Maor, Galit ^a   Vig, Ida ^a   Pupko, Tal ^a   Ast, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

RNA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; SILENCER ELEMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33745207758     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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