Lessons from non-canonical splicing

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 407-421

  Sibley, Christopher R ^a,b   Blazquez, Lorea ^a   Ule, Jernej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AXON; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; EXON SKIPPING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; INTRON; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SYNAPSE; TRANSPOSON; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84973163559     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.46     Document Type: Review

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