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Efficiency of translation termination in humans is highly dependent upon nucleotides in the neighbourhood of a (premature) termination codon.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Sept 2011
Pacho Frederic, Zambruno Giovanna, Calabresi Valentina, Kiritsi Dimitra, Schneider Holm
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Spontaneous read-through of a premature termination codon (PTC) has so far not been observed in patients carrying nonsense mutations. This report describes a patient with junctional epidermolysis bullosa who was expected to die because of compound heterozygous nonsense mutations in the gene LAMA3 (R943X/R1159X), but was rescued by spontaneous read-through of the R943X allele. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:...
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