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The skipping of constitutive exons in vivo induced by nonsense mutations.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 29 Jan 1993
Dietz H C, Valle D, Francomano C A, Kendzior R J, Pyeritz R E, Cutting G R
Abstract excerpt
Nonsense mutations create a premature signal for the termination of translation of messenger RNA. Such mutations have been observed to cause a severe reduction in the amount of mutant allele transcript or to generate a peptide truncated at the carboxyl end. Analysis of fibrillin transcript from a patient with Marfan syndrome revealed the skipping of a constitutive exon containing a nonsense mutation. Similar...
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