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A multi-exon-skipping detection assay reveals surprising diversity of splice isoforms of spinal muscular atrophy genes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Singh Natalia N, Seo Joonbae, Rahn Sarah J, Singh Ravindra N
Abstract excerpt
Humans have two near identical copies of Survival Motor Neuron gene: SMN1 and SMN2. Loss of SMN1 coupled with the predominant skipping of SMN2 exon 7 causes spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a neurodegenerative disease. SMA patient cells devoid of SMN1 provide a powerful system to examine splicing pattern of various SMN2 exons. Until now, similar system to examine splicing of SMN1 exons was unavailable. We have...
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