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SCIENCE
Volume 311, Issue 5758, Pages 230-232Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1118265
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- NICHD NIH HHS [N01-HD-1-3138] Funding Source: Medline
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The Prader-Willi syndrome is a congenital disease that is caused by the loss of paternal gene expression from a maternally imprinted region on chromosome 15. This region contains a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA), HBII-52, that exhibits sequence complementarity, to the alternatively spliced exon Vb of the serotonin receptor 5-HT2CR. We found that HBII-52 regulates alternative splicing of 5-HT2CR by binding to a silencing element in exon Vb. Prader-Willi syndrome patients do not express HBII-52. They have different 5-HT2CR messenger RNA (mRNA) isoforms than healthy individuals. Our results show that a snoRNA regulates the processing of an mRNA expressed from a gene located on a different chromosome, and the results indicate that a defect in pre-mRNA processing contributes to the Prader-Willi syndrome.
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