Alternative Splicing |
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| Alternate Splicing; Nested Transcripts; Alternate Splicings; Alternative RNA Splicing; Alternative RNA Splicings; Alternative Splicings; Nested Transcript; RNA Splicings, Alternative; Splicing, Alternate; Splicing, Alternative RNA; Splicings, Alternate | |
| A process whereby multiple RNA transcripts are generated from a single gene. Alternative splicing involves the splicing together of other possible sets of EXONS during the processing of some, but not all, transcripts of the gene. Thus a particular exon may be connected to any one of several alternative exons to form a mature RNA. The alternative forms of mature MESSENGER RNA produce PROTEIN ISOFORMS in which one part of the isoforms is common while the other parts are different. | |