Splicing, cis genetic variation and disease

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1311-1315

  Jensen, Cathy J ^a,b   Oldfield, Brian J ^b   Rubio, Justin P ^a  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Cis regulatory element; Genetic variation; Tissue specific splicing

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BINDING SITE; CODON; EXON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE; EXONS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MUTATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 70450184788     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0371311     Document Type: Short Survey

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