Short ultraconserved promoter regions delineate a class of preferentially expressed alternatively spliced transcripts

Genomics

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 308-316

  Rödelsperger, Christian ^a,b,c   Köhler, Sebastian ^a,c   Schulz, Marcel H ^b,d   Manke, Thomas ^b   Bauer, Sebastian ^a   Robinson, Peter N ^a,b,c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies   (Germany)

^d INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Digital gene expression; Genomics; Promoter; Ultraconservation

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CPG ISLAND; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOGS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEINS; RABBITS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 70349795476     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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