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An intron is a section of DNA within a gene that gets removed during the process of creating RNA, so it doesn't end up in the final RNA product that cells use. Scientists study introns because understanding how they're removed and how genes are processed helps explain how genetic information is actually used to make proteins and direct cellular functions.
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Research
80,830 papers- Intron-Derived Lariat RNAs Go Stable.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA · 2025
- Dysregulated minor intron splicing in cancer.Cancer science · 2022
- Intron specificity in pre-mRNA splicing.Current genetics · 2018
- Intron Retention: A Reemerging Paradigm in RNA Biology and Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation.Genes · 2025
- Intron-mediated RNA interference and microRNA (miRNA).Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library · 2008
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- primary transcript
- Has part
- nucleotide
- Image
- Intron.png
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- opposite of
- exon
- discoverer or inventor
- Richard Roberts
- time of discovery or invention
- 1976-00-00
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SO_0000188
- Commons category
- Introns
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