Table 2.

Exon usage and biological relevance of adipocyte-related AS events.

Gene	AS Region	Adipocyte Isoform	Biological Signatures	References
mTOR	Intron 5	Excluded	Promote white adipogenesis	[42]
Lipin 1	Exon 7	Included/Excluded	Differentiation/Lipid storage	[48,51,52]
INSR	Exon 11	Included	Promote brown adipogenesis	[13,62]
MEF2C	Alternative 3′ splice site of Exon 10	Distal	Promote brown adipogenesis	[63]
NcoR	Exon 37b	Included/Excluded	Proliferation/Differentiation	[66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77]
PKCδ	Alternative 5′ splice site of Exon 9	Proximal	Promote adipogenesis	[30,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85]
CETP	Exon 9	Included	Promote lipid metabolism	[86,87,88,89,90,91]
RUNX1T1	Exon 6	Included	Promote white adipogenesis	[54]
ODC	Exon 1, 2 and 3	Selection of exon 2 and 3	Promote lipid accumulation	[105,106,107]