Article
Heritability in the efficiency of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in humans.
PloS one - 21 Jul 2010
Seoighe Cathal, Gehring Chris
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In eukaryotes mRNA transcripts of protein-coding genes in which an intron has been retained in the coding region normally result in premature stop codons and are therefore degraded through the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway. There is evidence in the form of selective pressure for in-frame stop codons in introns and a depletion of length three introns that this is an important and conserved...
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