Preventing dangerous nonsense: selection for robustness to transcriptional error in human genes.

Nonsense Mediated Decay (NMD) degrades transcripts that contain a premature STOP codon resulting from mistranscription or missplicing. However NMD's surveillance of gene expression varies in efficiency both among and within human genes. Previous work has shown that the intron content of human g...

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Main Authors: Brian P Cusack, Peter F Arndt, Laurent Duret, Hugues Roest Crollius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3192821?pdf=render