A Mutation in the Srrm4 Gene Causes Alternative Splicing Defects and Deafness in the Bronx Waltzer Mouse

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Nakano, Yoko ^a   Jahan, Israt ^b   Bonde, Gregory ^a   Sun, Xingshen ^a   Hildebrand, Michael S ^a   Engelhardt, John F ^a   Smith, Richard J H ^a   Cornell, Robert A ^a   Fritzsch, Bernd ^b   Bánfi, Botond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MUTATOR GENE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERINE ARGININE REPETITIVE MATRIX 4 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CEREBELLUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEAFNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE ORDER; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHENOTYPE; RNA PRECURSORS; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSGENES;

MUS;

EID: 84868110688     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002966     Document Type: Article

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