RNA sequencing reveals the role of splicing polymorphisms in regulating human gene expression

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 545-554

  Lalonde, Emilie ^a   Ha, Kevin C H ^a   Wang, Zibo ^a   Bemmo, Amandine ^a   Kleinman, Claudia L ^a   Kwan, Tony ^a   Pastinen, Tomi ^a   Majewski, Jacek ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN MMAB; PROTEIN MRPL43; PROTEIN OAS1; PROTEIN USMG5; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

2',5'-OLIGOADENYLATE SYNTHETASE; ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; CELL LINE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; HUMANS; INTRONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79953303842     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.111211.110     Document Type: Article

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