Widespread establishment and regulatory impact of Alu exons in human genes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2837-2842

  Shen, Shihao ^a   Lin, Lan ^b   Cai, James J ^d   Jiang, Peng ^b   Kenkel, Elizabeth J ^b   Stroik, Mallory R ^b   Sato, Seiko ^b   Davidson, Beverly L ^b   Xing, Yi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c IA United States   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Deep sequencing; Transcriptome evolution; Transposable element; uORF

Indexed keywords

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EXON; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ALU ELEMENTS; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 79952615527     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012834108     Document Type: Article

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