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Extensive regulation of NAGNAG alternative splicing: new tricks for the spliceosome?

Anke Busch and Klemens J Hertel*

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Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4025, USA

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Genome Biology 2012, 13:143 doi:10.1186/gb-2012-13-2-143

Published: 22 February 2012

Abstract

A recent study using massive parallel sequencing demonstrates unequivocally that alternative tandem acceptor splicing is tissue-specifically regulated.

Keywords:
Alternative splicing; bioinformatics; phylogenetic conservation; RNA-seq; splicing mechanisms; splicing regulation; tandem splice acceptors