Article
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: inter-individual variability and human disease.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 1 Oct 2014
Nguyen Lam Son, Wilkinson Miles F, Gecz Jozef
Abstract excerpt
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a regulatory pathway that functions to degrade transcripts containing premature termination codons (PTCs) and to maintain normal transcriptome homeostasis. Nonsense and frameshift mutations that generate PTCs cause approximately one-third of all known human genetic diseases and thus NMD has a potentially important role in human disease. In genetic disorders in which the...
Topics
- Animals
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
- Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay
- Transcriptome
