Differing patterns of selection in alternative and constitutive splice sites

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1015-1022

  Garg, Kavita ^a   Green, Phil ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SPLICING; RATS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

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EID: 34347387984     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6347907     Document Type: Article

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