Alternative splicing and genetic diversity: Silencers are more frequently modified by SNVs associated with alternative exon/intron borders

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4942-4948

  De Souza, Jorge E S ^a   Ramalho, Rodrigo F ^b   Galante, Pedro A F ^a   Meyer, Diogo ^b   De Souza, Sandro J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL ALEMÃO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EXONIC SPLICING REGULATOR; EXONIC SPLICING SILENCER; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE VARIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 79960283905     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr081     Document Type: Article

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