Alternative promoters influence alternative splicing at the genomic level.

BACKGROUND: More and more experiments have shown that transcription and mRNA processing are not two independent events but are tightly coupled to each other. Both promoter and transcription rate were found to influence alternative splicing. More than half of human genes have alternative promoters, b...

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Main Authors: Dedong Xin, Landian Hu, Xiangyin Kong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2409967?pdf=render