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An intronic structure enabled by a long-distance interaction serves as a novel target for splicing correction in spinal muscular atrophy
15 Jul 2013
Abstract excerpt
Here, we report a long-distance interaction (LDI) as a critical regulator of alternative splicing of Survival Motor Neuron 2 (SMN2) exon 7, skipping of which is linked to spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a leading genetic disease of children and infants. We show that this LDI is linked to a unique intra-intronic structure that we term internal stem through LDI-1 (ISTL1). We used site-specific mutations and...
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