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From: The multiplicity of alternative splicing decisions in Caenorhabditis elegansis linked to specific intronic regulatory motifs and minisatellites

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The combination of multiple alternative splicing decisions diversifies the pool of encoded transcript isoforms. Scheme comparing Single Alternative Splicing decision Site (SASS) (A) and Multiple Alternative Splicing decision Sites (MASS) genes (B) and the corresponding possible mature messenger RNA isoforms. It gives an example of the combinatorial complexity resulting from multiple alternative splicing decisions. Constitutive exons are in grey, alternate exons are colored. The case of mutually exclusive alternate exons was chosen to be represented in this figure for the sake of simplicity. However, the definition of MASS and SASS genes used in the present study considers any type of alternative splicing events. By definition, MASS and SASS genes only differ in the number of independent splicing events (see the Methods section for details on the MASS and SASS discrimination procedure).

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