Conservation-based prediction of the transcription regulatory region of the SCN1A gene

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1675-1681

  Long, Yue Sheng ^a,b   Shi, Yi Wu ^a,b   Liao, Wei Ping ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

5 UTR; Gene expression; Promoter; SCN1A

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION;

5′-UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5′-UTR; CORE PROMOTERS; CROSS-SPECIES; EUKARYOTICS; GENES EXPRESSION; PROMOTER; REGULATORY REGIONS; SCN1A; SODIUM CHANNEL;

MAMMALS;

EID: 72749099745     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnsc.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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