Evolution of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma alternative splicing

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 2 E, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1334-1343

  Dou, Tonghai ^a,b   Xu, Jiaxi ^b   Gao, Yuan ^a   Gu, Jianlei ^a   Ji, Chaoneng ^b   Xie, Yi ^b   Zhou, Yan ^a,c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Evolution; PPAR gamma; Review

Indexed keywords

PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EXON; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PPAR GAMMA;

EID: 77957338139     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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