Connections between chromatin signatures and splicing

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-91

  Gómez Acuña, Luciana I ^a   Fiszbein, Ana ^a   Alló, Mariano ^a   Schor, Ignacio E ^a   Kornblihtt, Alberto R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; EXON; GENE; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; KINETICS; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANS SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; HUMANS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84871412366     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1142     Document Type: Review

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