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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2025

The regulation and function of post-transcriptional RNA splicing.

Karine Choquet, Ines L Patop, L Stirling Churchman

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Splicing-driven post-translational dysregulation: a new frontier for precision cancer medicine and immunotherapy.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  11. RNA regulation in plants.Science China. Life sciences · 2026
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  15. Role of alternative splicing in cancer progression.Irish journal of medical science · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Karine Choquet *Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5625-7268
Ines L Patop *Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2929-0860
L Stirling ChurchmanDepartment of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. churchman@genetics.med.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3888-2574

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eukaryotic RNA transcripts undergo extensive processing before becoming functional messenger RNAs, with splicing being a critical and highly regulated step that occurs both co-transcriptionally and post-transcriptionally. Recent analyses have revealed, with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution, that up to 40% of mammalian introns are retained after transcription termination and are subsequently removed largely while transcripts remain chromatin-associated. Post-transcriptional splicing has emerged as a key layer of gene expression regulation during development, stress response and disease progression. The control of post-transcriptional splicing regulates protein production through delayed splicing and nuclear export, or nuclear retention and degradation of specific transcript isoforms. Here, we review current methodologies for detecting post-transcriptional splicing, discuss the mechanisms controlling the timing of splicing and examine how this temporal regulation affects gene expression programmes in healthy cells and in disease states.

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RNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalRNA SplicingAnimalsGene Expression RegulationHumansRNA, MessengerRNA, Messenger

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