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Exon
Exon is the nucleotide sequence that remain in mRNA after post-transcriptional modification. Exons are terminated by introns.
Definitions in the literature
- Nucleotide sequence that remains in an RNA after post-transcriptional modification [1].
- Coding region of a gene that is interrupted by introns; after transcription and posttranscriptional processing, the exons remain in mRNA [2].
