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Splicing regulation in spinal muscular atrophy by an RNA structure formed by long-distance interactions.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Apr 2015
Singh Natalia N, Lee Brian M, Singh Ravindra N
Abstract excerpt
Humans carry two copies of the survival motor neuron gene: SMN1 and SMN2. Loss of SMN1 coupled with skipping of SMN2 exon 7 causes spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a leading genetic disease associated with infant mortality. Our discovery of intronic splicing silencer N1 (ISS-N1) is a promising target, currently in a phase III clinical trial, for an antisense oligonucleotide-mediated splicing correction in SMA. We...
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