Figure 1.
Types of splicing mutations that affect structure and/or abundance of resulting transcripts The diagram illustrates potential outcomes of mRNA splicing mutations predicted by the Shannon pipeline. Variation within splice donor and/or acceptor sites may lead to altered splicing events such as exon skipping (◊), exonic (□) or intronic (△) cryptic site use, and/or reduction in the abundance of normally spliced mRNA forms, termed leaky mutations (○).