Context-dependent robustness to 5' splice site polymorphisms in human populations

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1084-1096

  Lu, Zhi Xiang ^a   Jiang, Peng ^a   Cai, James J ^c   Xing, Yi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b IA United States   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; POLYGUANYLIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; ETHNICITY; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; INTRON; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DISEASE; EXONS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79952015770     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddq553     Document Type: Article

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