Genomic analysis of RNA alternative splicing in cancers

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4034-4041

  Xing, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Bioinformatics; Cancer; Genomics; Microarray; Review

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; REVIEW;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34347237604     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/2369     Document Type: Article

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