Expression of cochlin mRNA splice variants in the inner ear

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 88-96

  Sekine, Kuwon ^a   Ikezono, Tetsuo ^a,b   Matsumura, Tomohiro ^a   Shindo, Susumu ^a   Watanabe, Atsushi ^b   Li, Lishu ^a   Pawankar, Ruby ^a   Nishino, Takeshi ^a   Yagi, Toshiaki ^a  

^a Department of Otorhinolaryngology ^*

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

COCH gene; Cochlin; DFNA9; Genetics; Hereditary deafness; RLM RACE; RNA ligation mediated amplification of cDNA ends; Splicing variant

Indexed keywords

COCH PROTEIN, HUMAN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; INNER EAR; INTRON; METABOLISM; PERILYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; WISTAR RAT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATTLE; EAR, INNER; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MYOCARDIUM; PERILYMPH; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 76449084314     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: 14219700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000231634     Document Type: Article

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