Genome-wide discovery of human splicing branchpoints

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 290-303

  Mercer, Tim R ^a,b   Clark, Michael B ^a,c   Andersen, Stacey B ^d   Brunck, Marion E ^d   Haerty, Wilfried ^c   Crawford, Joanna ^d   Taft, Ryan J ^d,e,f   Nielsen, Lars K ^d   Dinger, Marcel E ^a,b   Mattick, John S ^a,b  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

^f GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; EXORIBONUCLEASE; RNA SPLICING;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PROCEDURES;

VERTEBRATA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; POSITION-SPECIFIC SCORING MATRICES; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 84922355631     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.182899.114     Document Type: Article

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