interexon
interexon adjective: between exons.
Adjective
interexon (not comparable)
- Between exons.
Noun
interexon (plural interexons)
- A region of a transcribed gene between exons.
- RT-PCR primers for the identification of active HERV loci were designed from the sequences of predicted/expected loci and incorporated 0 to 3 ambiguous nucleotides taking the other homologous loci into account. […] Locus-specific primers were set in interexons. Those sequences and PCR conditions...2004 December, Goichi Okahara, Shinobu Matsubara, et al., “Expression analyses of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs): tissue-specific and developmental stage-dependent expression of HERVs”, in...
- The results of this analysis showed that there are significant differences between all the groups of pathologies studied regarding the level of expression of the various interexons, understanding significance in each group as the statistical difference found at least between a pair of pathologies...2013 December 6, Carlos A. Orozco, Andrés Acevedo, et al., “The Combined Expression Patterns of Ikaros Isoforms Characterize Different Hematological Tumor Subtypes”, in PLOS One, volume 8, number 12...
Forms of interexon
| plural | interexons |
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Origin of interexon
From inter- + exon.
Words formed from interexon
Questions about interexon
- What does interexon mean?
- Interexon means between exons.
- What part of speech is interexon?
- Interexon can be an adjective or a noun.
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