Ab initio prediction of mutation-induced cryptic splice-site activation and exon skipping

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 759-765

  Divina, Petr ^a,b   Kvitkovicova, Andrea ^b   Buratti, Emanuele ^c   Vorechovsky, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; THYMINE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; INTRON; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RNA SPLICING; SILENCER ELEMENT; SPLICING DEFECT;

ALGORITHMS; EXONS; MUTATION; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 67349134700     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2008.257     Document Type: Article

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