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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2011

Functional consequences of developmentally regulated alternative splicing.

Auinash Kalsotra, Thomas A Cooper

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 429 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

429 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Auinash KalsotraDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Thomas A Cooper

Funding

MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF MYOTONIC DYSTROPHYR01AR045653 · NIAMS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI COOPER, THOMAS A · 1999 to 2018
$8.3M
TROPONIN T ALTERNATIVE SPLICING IN EMBRYONIC HEARTR01HL045565 · NHLBI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI COOPER, THOMAS A · 1996 to 2018
$5.5M
Transcriptome processing networks in skeletal muscle: mechanisms and functionsR01AR060733 · NIAMS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI COOPER, THOMAS A · 2011 to 2023
$4.0M
TROPONIN T ALTERNATIVE SPLICING IN EMBRYONIC HEARTR29HL045565 · NHLBI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI COOPER, THOMAS ALEXANDER · 1991 to 1995
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NHLBI NIH HHS HL045565NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL045565NIAMS NIH HHS AR045653NIAMS NIH HHS AR060733NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR045653NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR060733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genome-wide analyses of metazoan transcriptomes have revealed an unexpected level of mRNA diversity that is generated by alternative splicing. Recently, regulatory networks have been identified through which splicing promotes dynamic remodelling of the transcriptome to promote physiological changes, which involve robust and coordinated alternative splicing transitions. The regulation of splicing in yeast, worms, flies and vertebrates affects a variety of biological processes. The functional classes of genes that are regulated by alternative splicing include both those with widespread homeostatic activities and those with cell-type-specific functions. Alternative splicing can drive determinative physiological change or can have a permissive role by providing mRNA variability that is used by other regulatory mechanisms.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingAnimalsCell DifferentiationCell DivisionGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenes, DevelopmentalHumansModels, BiologicalOrganogenesis

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PMID21921927
PMCPMC3321218

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