Alzheimer's risk variants in the clusterin gene are associated with alternative splicing

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Szymanski, M ^a   Wang, R ^a   Bassett, S S ^a   Avramopoulos, D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's dementia; CLU; Clusterin; Gene regulation; Splicing; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERIN; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE;

ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; CLUSTERIN; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; MICE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79960363619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2011.17     Document Type: Article

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