Splicing Predictions Used to Identify Disease Mutations (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Splicing Predictions Used to Identify Disease Mutations (1 of 6)

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These are concept Dominoes. Artists' conception of how disease-causing genetic mutations reside with long chains of DNA. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 19 2014 issue of Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The paper, by H.Y. Xiong at University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada, and colleagues was titled, 'The human splicing code reveals new insights into the genetic determinants of disease.'

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Jessica Wilson

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