In silico prediction of splice-altering single nucleotide variants in the human genome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 13534-13544

  Jian, Xueqiu ^a,b   Boerwinkle, Eric ^a,b,c   Liu, Xiaoming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MAXENTSCAN MODEL; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE VARIANT WITHIN SPLICING CONSENSUS REGION; TUMOR GENE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOMICS; PROCEDURES; RNA SPLICING; VALIDATION STUDY;

RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; POSITION-SPECIFIC SCORING MATRICES; RNA SPLICE SITES;

EID: 84926503617     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1206     Document Type: Article

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