TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yu, Jun
A1  - Yang, Zhiyong
A1  - Kibukawa, Miho
A1  - Paddock, Marcia
A1  - Passey, Douglas A.
A1  - Wong, Gane Ka-Shu
T1  - Minimal Introns Are Not “Junk”
Y1  - 2002/08/01 
JF  - Genome Research 
JO  - Genome Research 
SP  - 1185 
EP  - 1189 
DO  - 10.1101/gr.224602 
VL  - 12 
IS  - 8 
UR  - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/12/8/1185.abstract 
N2  - Intron-size distributions for most multicellular (and some unicellular) eukaryotes have a sharp peak at their “minimal intron” size. Across the human population, these minimal introns exhibit an abundance of insertion-deletion polymorphisms, the effect of which is to maintain their optimal size. We argue that minimal introns affect function by enhancing the rate at which mRNA is exported from the cell nucleus. 
ER  -