Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 580, Issue 18, Pages 4303-4305Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.06.051
Keywords
intronless; single exonic genes; function; ontology
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It has been proposed that one function of introns is to coordinate expression across/within networks of related genes. This same hypothesis also predicts that intronless genes will not be uniformly distributed among the functional categories of human genes, but will be found most frequently in those categories that have less need to communicate changes in their expression. Statistical analysis demonstrates significant clustering of single exon genes among those with binding or signal transduction/receptor activities and fewer than expected among those with catalytic function. (c) 2006 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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