Sex-specific alternative splicing of RNA from the transformer gene results from sequence-dependent splice site blockage.

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  Cell

• Publication date

  1989-08-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/0092-8674(89)90426-1PMID 2503251
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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