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Genome-wide discovery of natural variation in pre-mRNA splicing and prioritising causal alternative splicing to salt stress response in rice

• Pre-mRNA splicing is an essential step for the regulation of gene expression. In order to specifically capture splicing variants in plants for genome-wide association studies (GWAS), we developed a ...

Introns: Splicing mysteries and evolution’s secret code

Although the participation of spliceosomes is almost always required for intron removal, a few types of genes have ...
The Scientist

Gene Proximity to Nuclear Speckles Drives Efficient mRNA Splicing

One idea has been that speckles are splicing factories. The splicing reaction would happen inside the speckle, and then the spliced product would leave. “What people found is that’s not what happens,” ...
Medical Xpress

Alternative RNA splicing tied to schizophrenia-like behaviors in animal models

In a new study, Chinese researchers have discovered the previously unrecognized role of alternative splicing of the DOC2A gene in schizophrenia. The research was conducted by scientists led by LI Ming ...