Article
Alternative splicing and disease.
RNA biology - 1 Jan 2000
Kim Eddo, Goren Amir, Ast Gil
Abstract excerpt
Splicing is a molecular mechanism, by which introns are removed from an mRNA precursor and exons are ligated to form a mature mRNA. Mutations that cause defects in the splicing mechanism are known to be responsible for many diseases, including cystic fibrosis and familial dysautonomia. If mutatio...
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