Figure 10.15. Two aberrant forms of splicing.

Figure 10.15Two aberrant forms of splicing

(A) In exon skipping the aberrant splicing results in an exon being lost from the mRNA. (B) When a cryptic splice site is selected, part of an exon might be lost from the mRNA, as shown here, or if the cryptic site lies within an intron then a segment of that intron will be retained in the mRNA.

From: Chapter 10, Synthesis and Processing of RNA

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