Genomic Compensation Workarounds Shore up a Sea of Mutations (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Genomic Compensation Workarounds Shore up a Sea of Mutations

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Adaptive mechanisms such as activation and use of cryptic splice sites or alternative transcription start sites as well as nonsense-associated alternative splicing and skipped exons maintaining reading frame shore up a sea of mutations expected to cause premature translation termination and loss of function.

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Artist: Neta Schwartz.

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