exon

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This exon was chosen because it showed sequence homology to exon 1 of human MUC16 that we confirmed by DNA sequencing.

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  1. noun A sequence of DNA that codes information for protein synthesis that is transcribed to messenger RNA.

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  • Their DNA is exon-rich, and what the energized transposons were doing, not merely to their host plants but to the insects that fed on their nectar, and to anything that fed on the insects, was multiplying the number of functional genes. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
  • In contrast, proteins of rapidly duplicating genes sometimes have quite different domain structures, mainly caused by unusually frequent shifts of exon-intron boundaries and / or frameshift mutations. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Orthologous pairs of rice and Arabidopsis HD-Zip genes were predicted based on neighbour joining and maximum parsimony (MP) trees with support of conserved intron-exon organization. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Meanwhile each alternative exon is controlled by multiple splicing regulators. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • RESULTS: We propose the use of partial correlation analysis to identify association links between exons and their upstream regulators or their downstream target genes (exon-gene links) and links between co-spliced exons (exon-exon links). —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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