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Abstract
Numerous inherited human genetic disorders are caused by defects in pre-mRNA splicing. Two recent studies have added a new twist to the link between genetic variation and pre-mRNA splicing by identifying SNPs that correlate with heritable changes in alternative splicing but do not cause disease. This suggests that allele-specific alternative splicing is a mechanism that accounts for individual variation in the human population.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 18054116 PMCID: PMC2372159 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2007.10.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Genet ISSN: 0168-9525 Impact factor: 11.639