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Alternative splicing

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A mechanism by which different forms of mature mRNAs (messengers RNAs) are generated from the same gene.

Alternative splicing is a regulatory mechanism by which variations in the incorporation of the exons, or coding regions, into mRNA leads to the production of more than one related protein, or isoform

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