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Regulation of Neuron-Specific Alternative Splicing of Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Pre-mRNA
18 Dec 2007
Abstract excerpt
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is one of the most common heritable autosomal dominant disorders. Alternative splicing modulates the function of neurofibromin, the NF1 gene product, by inserting the in-frame exon 23a into the region of NF1 mRNA that encodes the GTPase-activating protein-related domain. This insertion, which is predominantly skipped in neurons, reduces the ability of neurofibromin to regulate Ras...
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