Evolution of alternative splicing regulation: Changes in predicted exonic splicing regulators are not associated with changes in alternative splicing levels in primates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Irimia, Manuel ^a   Rukov, Jakob Lewin ^b   Roy, Scott William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

PAN; PRIMATES;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67149139310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005800     Document Type: Article

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