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Analysis of Prostate-Specific Antigen Transcripts in Chimpanzees, Cynomolgus Monkeys, Baboons, and African Green Monkeys

The function of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is to liquefy the semen coagulum so that the released sperm can fuse with the ovum. Fifteen spliced variants of the PSA gene have been reported in humans, but little is known about alternative splicing in nonhuman primates. Positive selection has been...

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Autores principales: Mubiru, James N., Yang, Alice S., Olsen, Christian, Nayak, Sudhir, Livi, Carolina B., Dick, Edward J., Owston, Michael, Garcia-Forey, Magdalena, Shade, Robert E., Rogers, Jeffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24732672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094522