A major goal of evolutionary genetics is to understand the genetic processes that give rise to
phenotypic diversity in multicellular organisms. Alternative splicing generates multiple …

Precise pre-mRNA splicing, essential for appropriate protein translation, depends on the
presence of consensus “cis” sequences that define exon-intron boundaries and regulatory …

Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized clinical diagnostic testing. Yet, for a
substantial proportion of patients, sequence information restricted to exons and exon–intron …

Precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing is a critical step in the posttranscriptional
regulation of gene expression, providing significant expansion of the functional proteome of …

Alternative splicing is a widespread process contributing to structural transcript variation and
proteome diversity. In cancer, the splicing process is commonly disrupted, resulting in both …

In metazoans, alternative splicing of genes is essential for regulating gene expression and
contributing to functional complexity. Computational predictions, comparative genomics, and …

Human genes contain a dense array of diverse cis-acting elements that make up a code
required for the expression of correctly spliced mRNAs. Alternative splicing generates a …

Ninety‐four percent of human genes are discontinuous, such that segments expressed as
mRNA are contained within exons and separated by intervening segments, called introns …

Small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) are critical components of the spliceosome that catalyze the
splicing of pre-mRNA. snRNAs are each complexed with many proteins to form RNA-protein …

A high prevalence of vitamin D (calcidiol) serum deficiency has been described in several
autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid arthritis (AR), and …