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Defective splicing of the RB1 transcript is the dominant cause of retinoblastomas.
Human genetics - 1 Sept 2017
Cygan Kamil J, Soemedi Rachel, Rhine Christy L, Profeta Abraham, Murphy Eileen L, Murray Michael F, Fairbrother William G
Abstract excerpt
Defective splicing is a common cause of genetic diseases. On average, 13.4% of all hereditary disease alleles are classified as splicing mutations with most mapping to the critical GT or AG nucleotides within the 5' and 3' splice sites. However, splicing mutations are underreported and the fraction of splicing mutations that compose all disease alleles varies greatly across disease gene. For example, there is a...
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