Functional analysis of splicing mutations in exon 7 of NF1 gene

BMC Medical Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bottillo, Irene ^a   De Luca, Alessandro ^a,b   Schirinzi, Annalisa ^a,b   Guida, Valentina ^a   Torrente, Isabella ^a   Calvieri, Stefano ^b   Gervasini, Cristina ^c   Larizza, Lidia ^c   Pizzuti, Antonio ^a,b   Dallapiccola, Bruno ^a,b  

^a CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROFIBROMIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SILENCER ELEMENT; WILD TYPE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; GENES, NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; HUMANS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PRECURSORS;

EID: 33847314717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-8-4     Document Type: Article

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