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. 1989 Aug 11;17(15):6369–6382. doi: 10.1093/nar/17.15.6369

Statistical analysis of mammalian pre-mRNA splicing sites.

M S Gelfand 1
PMCID: PMC318283  PMID: 2528123

Abstract

222 donor and 222 acceptor (including 206 pairs) non-homologous splicing sites were studied. Well known features of these were confirmed and some novel observations were made. It is (1) cCAGGGag signal in (-60)-(-58) region of acceptor sites; (2) strong complementarity between regions (-69)-(-55) and (-36)-(-22) of some of the acceptor sites, and (3) small but statistically significant correlation between discrimination energies of corresponding donor and acceptor sites.

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