Estimating the prevalence of functional exonic splice regulatory information

Human Genetics

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1059-1078

  Savisaar, Rosina ^a   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a Claverton Down   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; EXON; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA SPLICE SITE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 85017454441     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-017-1798-3     Document Type: Review

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