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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 2.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Sci. 2011 Feb;26(1):10.1214/10-STS343. doi: 10.1214/10-STS343

Fig 1.

Fig 1

A gene (DNA sequence) with three exons. During transcription, two isoforms are generated. The first isoform contains all of the gene’s three exons. The second isoform contains the first and third exon, skipping the middle exon. This process is called alternative splicing and the middle exon is called an alternatively spliced exon.