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By means of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), 'ectopic' or 'illegitimate' transcripts from any gene may be amplified from any tissue or cell type. RNA transcript analysis is therefore no longer dependent upon possession of the often inaccessible 'expressing' tissue. We review here the applications of ectopic transcript analysis to mutation detection and characterization, analysis of RNA splicing and the study of the genotype-phenotype relationship.
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