Complex splicing generates great diversity in human NFI transcripts

BMC Genomics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Vandenbroucke, Ina ^a   Callens, Tom ^a   De Paepe, Anne ^a   Messiaen, Ludwine ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROFIBROMIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLASMID; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 9444268056     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-3-13     Document Type: Article

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