isoform
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Notably, an ancestry-biased mRNA isoform of SPSB2, likely driven by cross-population allele frequency differences in rs11064437, was found to be unannotated in canonical gene annotation.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
"We could see if a subset or all set of exons within a gene were differentiated between cancer and normal cells, which allowed us to evaluate cancer-specificity at the isoform versus gene level."
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024
It turns out that this one chaperone protein had a twin — it’s called an isoform.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021
The top and middle panels show isoform sequencing and RNA-seq reads, respectively, that have been mapped to the chromosomal location containing the AUR62017258 gene model, which is shown on the bottom panel.
From Nature ● Feb. 7, 2017
The short deltaN isoform is thought to function as an oncogene, and its expression was most enriched in the classical subtype.
From Nature ● Sep. 26, 2012
This technology allowed the researchers to uncover 214,516 unique isoforms -- over 70% of which have never been previously studied.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
Cancer cells are prone to alternative splicing of exons, which creates isoforms, which the St. Jude analysis detected in a way that had been difficult in earlier screens.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024
The researchers found, for example, that for many genes important in neuron-to-neuron signaling, the same cell type expressed different mRNA isoforms in different brain regions.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
This allowed the researchers to identify isoforms from hundreds of thousands of individual mouse and human brain cells.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
Depending on the changes, the cells produce different forms, or isoforms, of proteins.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2023
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