A proof-of-concept study: Exon-level expression profiling and alternative splicing in autism using lymphoblastoid cell lines

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Talebizadeh, Zohreh ^a   Aldenderfer, Richard ^a   Chen, Xue Wen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Autism; Differential expression; Exon array; Lymphoblastoid cell lines

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; START CODON; STOP CODON;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CELL LINE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84891855778     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: 14735873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YPG.0b013e3283635526     Document Type: Article

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