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Modulation of survival motor neuron pre-mRNA splicing by inhibition of alternative 3' splice site pairing.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 30 Nov 2001
Lim S R, Hertel K J
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy is caused by the loss of functional survival motor neuron (SMN1) alleles. A translationally silent nucleotide transition in the duplicated copy of the gene (SMN2) leads to exon 7 skipping and expression of a nonfunctional gene product. It has been suggested that differential SMN2 splicing is caused by the disruption of an exonic splicing enhancer. Here we show that the single nucleotide...
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