Isoforms at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Isoforms? Multiple related proteins that differ in sequence due to alternate splicing of exons within a single primary RNA transcript or due to derivation from two related genes. Recent evidence indicates isoforms may also be generated by trans-splicing, a form of

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