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The rules and impact of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in human cancers.
Nature genetics - 1 Oct 2016
Lindeboom Rik G H, Supek Fran, Lehner Ben
Abstract excerpt
Premature termination codons (PTCs) cause a large proportion of inherited human genetic diseases. PTC-containing transcripts can be degraded by an mRNA surveillance pathway termed nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). However, the efficiency of NMD varies; it is inefficient when a PTC is located downstream of the last exon junction complex (EJC). We used matched exome and transcriptome data from 9,769 human tumors...
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