[SO-devel] [ song-Term Tracker-1752457 ] new term request: mitron

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Term Tracker item #1752457, was opened at 2007-07-12 07:58
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Submitted By: Michael Ashburner (ma11)
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Summary: new term request: mitron

Initial Comment:
Karen

Ruby et al. Nature 448:83 desribe a new class of miRNAs that are derived from debranched introns. They name the class, intronic mRNA.  It will be is_a miRNA but derived from an intron. The class of introns from which these are derived are called : mitron.

mitron
def: An intron from whose debranched product an miRNA is derived.

intronic miRNA
def: A miRNA derived by DROSHA-independent processing from a mitron.

Michael

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