Intron Retention: A Common Splicing Event within the Human Kallikrein Gene Family

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BACKGROUND: All human kallikrein (KLK) genes have at least one splice variant, some of which possess clinical utility in cancer diagnostics/prognostics. Given that introns <100 bp in length are retained in 95% of human genes and that splice variants of KLK3 and KLK4 retain intron III, we hypothesized that other proteins in this family, with a small intron III, may also retain it. METHODS: Variant-specific reverse...

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