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      Single amino-acid InDel variants generated by alternative tandem splice-donor and -acceptor selection.

      Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
      Alternative Splicing, genetics, Amino Acids, Base Sequence, Expressed Sequence Tags, Genome, Human, Humans, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutagenesis, Insertional, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, RNA Splice Sites, Sequence Deletion

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          We have investigated putative single amino-acid InDel variants with human ESTs. Examination of the formation process for single amino-acid InDel variants indicates a possible splicing mechanism in addition to the genomic insertion/deletion events as would be expected. The wobble-splicing transcripts were often generated around the intron-exon boundaries by selecting an alternative neighboring splice signal sequence, in particular the tandem agNAG or GTNgt sequence at the splice-acceptor or -donor site, thus creating single amino-acid InDel isoforms. Another category of variants was identified with one altered amino-acid plus one amino-acid InDel, under divergent coding-frame usage. We demonstrate that such minute distance of splice site choice generates an even greater level of transcriptome diversity, and suggest that non-functional synonymous or intronic SNPs could be converted to functionally significant InDel alterations through this process. This subtle alteration in mRNA and protein-coding sequence may elicit a great impact upon human genome and proteome diversity.

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