Short tandem repeats in human exons: a target for disease mutations

BE Madsen, P Villesen, C Wiuf - BMC genomics, 2008 - Springer
… In summary, 92% of all human genes have STRs in their exons according to the definition
used in this paper. Despite their short lengths and simple definition STRs capture a large …

Correction of disease-associated exon skipping by synthetic exon-specific activators

L Cartegni, AR Krainer - Nature structural biology, 2003 - nature.com
… to an antisense moiety that targets an exon by Watson-Crick base … mutation at position +6
of exon 18 (E1694X) causes exon … point mutations that disrupt the ESE cause significant exon

Deep intronic mutations and human disease

R Vaz-Drago, N Custódio, M Carmo-Fonseca - Human genetics, 2017 - Springer
… restricted to exons and exon–intron boundaries fails to identify the genetic cause of the
disease. Here … indicating that pathogenic mutations can occur deep within the introns of over 75 …

Defective splicing, disease and therapy: searching for master checkpoints in exon definition

E Buratti, M Baralle, FE Baralle - Nucleic acids research, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… elements that define exon boundaries. In the final part, we shall then discuss possible
therapeutic targets and strategies to rescue genetic defects of complex splicing systems. …

Splicing mutations in human genetic disorders: examples, detection, and confirmation

A Anna, G Monika - Journal of applied genetics, 2018 - Springer
… The splicing mutation may occur in both introns and exons and disrupt existing splice
sites or … that include RNA/cDNA sequencing and genome or targeted whole gene next-generation …

New type of disease causing mutations: the example of the composite exonic regulatory elements of splicing in CFTR exon 12

F Pagani, C Stuani, M Tzetis… - … molecular genetics, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… A total number of 26 hybrid minigenes were analysed containing site-directed mutations at
two target sequences of the exon: the AAGATGC sequence at the 5′ end from position 12 to …

Identification of sequence variants in genetic disease-causing genes using targeted next-generation sequencing

X Wei, X Ju, X Yi, Q Zhu, N Qu, T Liu, Y Chen, H Jiang… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
… To identify mutations associated with genetic diseases, we … of the exons of 193 genes involved
in 103 genetic diseases. To … with six different genetic diseases resulting from six disease-…

Mechanism and modeling of human disease-associated near-exon intronic variants that perturb RNA splicing

HL Chiang, YT Chen, JY Su, HN Lin, CHA Yu… - Nature Structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
… splicing mutations are correlated with disease phenotype and … predicting near-exon intronic
mutations and demonstrate … amplified by primers targeting the first two exons of the minigene …

Targeted exon skipping to address “leaky” mutations in the dystrophin gene

S Fletcher, CF Adkin, P Meloni, B Wong… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2012 - cell.com
… excision of exons 8 and 9 in normal human myoblasts, … targeting exon 8, that unequivocally
increase dystrophin above baseline in vitro, and propose that patients with leaky mutations

Exonic splicing enhancers: mechanism of action, diversity and role in human genetic diseases

BJ Blencowe - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2000 - cell.com
human genetic diseases linked to mutations within exonsexons has drawn attention to
the possibility that these elements are frequent targets of mutations in human genetic diseases. …