Intronic Alus influence alternative splicing

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Lev Maor, Galit ^a   Ram, Oren ^a   Kim, Eddo ^a   Sela, Noa ^a   Goren, Amir ^a   Levanon, Erez Y ^b   Ast, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; FAS ANTIGEN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GLYCEROL KINASE; NEUROFIBROMIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; EXON; HEMOPHILIA A; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; RETROPOSON; RNA EDITING; RODENT; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

PRIMATES;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA EDITING; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

EID: 52949098749     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000204     Document Type: Article

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