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Nature Reviews Genetics 10, 664–665 (1 October 2009) | doi:10.1038/nrg2669

Chromatin: A peak for exons

Mary Muers

It is widely appreciated that transcription and chromatin structure are inextricably linked and that pre-mRNA processing is tightly coupled to transcription. A new dimension to these relationships has now emerged: chromatin structure seems to influence splicing.