Pervasive haplotypic variation in the spliceo-transcriptome of the human major histocompatibility complex

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1042-1054

  Vandiedonck, Claire ^a,b,c   Taylor, Martin S ^a,d   Lockstone, Helen E ^a   Plant, Katharine ^a   Taylor, Jennifer M ^a   Durrant, Caroline ^a   Broxholme, John ^a   Fairfax, Benjamin P ^a   Knight, Julian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLICEOSOME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79959412801     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.116681.110     Document Type: Article

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