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Features of 5'-splice-site efficiency derived from disease-causing mutations and comparative genomics.
Genome research - 1 Jan 2008
Roca Xavier, Olson Andrew J, Rao Atmakuri R, Enerly Espen, Kristensen Vessela N, Børresen-Dale Anne-Lise, Andresen Brage S, Krainer Adrian R, Sachidanandam Ravi
Abstract excerpt
Many human diseases, including Fanconi anemia, hemophilia B, neurofibromatosis, and phenylketonuria, can be caused by 5'-splice-site (5'ss) mutations that are not predicted to disrupt splicing, according to position weight matrices. By using comparative genomics, we identify pairwise dependencies between 5'ss nucleotides as a conserved feature of the entire set of 5'ss. These dependencies are also conserved in...
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