Alternative CHRNB4 3′-UTRs Mediate the Allelic Effects of SNP rs1948 on Gene Expression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gallego, Xavier ^a   Cox, Ryan J ^a   Laughlin, James R ^a   Stitzel, Jerry A ^a   Ehringer, Marissa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 138; MICRORNA 3157; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHRNB4 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MICRORNAS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 84877779021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063699     Document Type: Article

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