Analysis of the exon–intron structures of thousands of human genes has indeed revealed that there is a statistically highly significant excess of phase 1 introns in the vicinity of the signal peptide cleavage sites of secreted proteins [ 78 ].
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Exon Shuffling Played a Decisive Role in the Evolution of the Genetic Toolkit for the Multicellular Body Plan of Metazoa.
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