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Nature Cell Biology 6, 916–917 (1 October 2004) | doi:10.1038/ncb1004-916

Refocusing on BRCA1

Alan Ashworth

The human genome sprung a major surprise when it revealed many fewer genes than most people had expected. However, it seems that this is most probably compensated for by the prodigious, and so far incompletely documented, production of multiple distinct mRNAs species from individual genes.