Post-transcriptional exon shuffling events in humans can be evolutionarily conserved and abundant

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1788-1799

  Al Balool, Haya H ^a   Weber, David ^a,c   Liu, Yilei ^a,d   Wade, Mark ^a   Guleria, Kamlesh ^a,e   Nam, Pitsien Lang Ping ^a   Clayton, Jake ^a   Rowe, William ^a   Coxhead, Jonathan ^b   Irving, Julie ^b   Elliott, David J ^a   Hall, Andrew G ^a   Santibanez Koref, Mauro ^a   Jackson, Michael S ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^e GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CDK13 GENE; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MAN1A2 GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHC3 GENE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; TLE4 GENE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA SHUFFLING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 80555125029     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.116442.110     Document Type: Article

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