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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay modulates clinical outcome of genetic disease.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Oct 2006
Khajavi Mehrdad, Inoue Ken, Lupski James R
Abstract excerpt
The nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) pathway is an mRNA surveillance system that typically degrades transcripts containing premature termination codons (PTCs) in order to prevent translation of unnecessary or aberrant transcripts. Failure to eliminate these mRNAs with PTCs may result in the synthesis of abnormal proteins that can be toxic to cells through dominant-negative or gain-of-function effects. Recent studies...
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