Does distance matter? Variations in alternative 3′ splicing regulation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 5487-5498

  Akerman, Martin ^a   Mandel Gutfreund, Yael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; MACHINE LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; RNA SPLICE SITES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34548706497     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm603     Document Type: Article

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