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Human-Specific Abnormal Alternative Splicing of Wild-Type PKD1 Induces Premature Termination of Polycystin-1.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Oct 2018
Lea Wendy A, Parnell Stephen C, Wallace Darren P, Calvet James P, Zelenchuk Lesya V, Alvarez Nehemiah S, Ward Christopher J
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BACKGROUND: The major form of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is caused by heterozygous mutations in PKD1, the gene that encodes polycystin-1 (PC1). Unlike PKD1 genes in the mouse and most other mammals, human PKD1 is unusual in that it contains two long polypyrimidine tracts in introns 21 and 22 (2.5 kbp and 602 bp, respectively; 97% cytosine and thymine). Although these polypyrimidine tracts have...
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