The splicing machinery is a genetic modifier of disease severity.

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Disease severity correlates with the level of correctly spliced RNA transcribed from genes carrying splicing mutations and with the ratio of alternatively spliced isoforms. Hence, a role for splicing regulation as a genetic modifier has been suggested. Here we discuss recent experiments that provide direct evidence that changes in the level of splicing factors modulate the splicing pattern of disease-associated...

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