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. 2005 Oct 7;123(1):1-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.09.010.

Alternative splicing--when two's a crowd

Christopher W J Smith  1
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Alternative splicing--when two's a crowd

Christopher W J Smith. Cell. .
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Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain mutually exclusive splicing of pairs of exons. A paper in this issue of Cell (Graveley, 2005) provides a fascinating insight into the perplexing question of how only one exon at a time is chosen from an array of 48 exons in the Drosophila Dscam gene.

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