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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EXON

A pronunciation spelling of French exemptexempt.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EXON

exon  [ˈɛksɒn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Exon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Exon

An exon is any nucleotide sequence encoded by a gene that remains present within the final mature RNA product of that gene after introns have been removed by RNA splicing. The term exon refers to both the DNA sequence within a gene and to the corresponding sequence in RNA transcripts. In RNA splicing, introns are removed and exons are covalently joined to one another as part of generating the mature messenger RNA.

Definition of exon in the English dictionary

The definition of exon in the dictionary is one of the four officers who command the Yeomen of the Guard.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXON


axon
ˈæksɒn
diaxon
daɪˈæksɒn
limacon
ˈlɪməsɒn
neuraxon
njʊrˈæksɒn
polyaxon
ˌpɒlɪˈæksɒn
saucisson
ˈsəʊsiːˌsɒn
subtaxon
ˈsʌbˌtæksɒn
taxon
ˈtæksɒn
tetraxon
tetrˈæksɒn
Tucson
ˈtuːsɒn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXON

exoergic
exoerythrocytic
exogamic
exogamous
exogamy
exogen
exogenetic
exogenous
exogenously
exomis
exonerate
exoneration
exonerative
exonerator
exonic
exonuclease
exonumia
exonumist
exonym
exoparasitic

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXON

Anglo-Saxon
caxon
claxon
Dixon
klaxon
monaxon
Nixon
Old Saxon
Oxon
Saxon
West Saxon

Synonyms and antonyms of exon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «exon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXON

Find out the translation of exon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of exon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «exon» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

外显子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

exón
570 millions of speakers

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exon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एक्सॉन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

اكسون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

экзон
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

exon
270 millions of speakers

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exon
260 millions of speakers

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exon
220 millions of speakers

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Exon
190 millions of speakers

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Exon
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

エクソン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

엑손
85 millions of speakers

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Exon
85 millions of speakers
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exon
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எக்சோன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एक्सॉन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ekson
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esone
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

eksonu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

екзон
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

exon
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

εξόνιο
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Exon
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

exon
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

exon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of exon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXON»

The term «exon» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.064 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXON» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about exon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXON»

Discover the use of exon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to exon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Positional Cloning by Exon Trapping and CDNA Selection
1.1.2 EXON TRAPPING SYSTEMS Exon amplification, or exon trapping, is a technique allowing the selective cloning of exon sequences from large genomic DNA fragments. The system directly selects the genomic exons, based on the ...
Bernhard Korn, 1999
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Protein evolution by exon-shuffling
The book surveys current evidence for modular protein evolution by exon-shuffling and lists the proteins that clearly evolved by this mechanism.
László Patthy, 1995
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Exon-Florio National Security Test for Foreign Investment
regarding proposed or pending investment transactions; (2) CFIUS had interpreted incorrectly the requirements under the statutes for investigations of transactions that involve firms that are owned or controlled by a foreign government; ...
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Review of Foreign Acquisitions Under the Exon-Florio Provision
4. Significance to Practitioners While President Bush continues to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to its traditional "open investment" policy, the impending change in Administration, the enactment of strengthening amendments to Exon- Florio in ...
‎1992
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Muscle Gene Therapy
While the aim of antisense-mediated exon skipping is the same for each mutation type (i.e., reframing the transcript) a slightly different approach is required for different mutation types (Fig. 5.2) (Aartsma-Rus et al. 2009a). For the most common ...
Dongsheng Duan, 2009
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A Sermon, Preach'd at Exon, May 10th, 1710: Before an ...
Before an Assembly of the United Ministers of Devon and Cornwall. ... By Tho. Edgley Thomas Edgley. Luipeiife the Ordinances of the Gofpel with a Reverence becoming the Majejly of GOD, whofe Deputies you are ; and govern all your ...
Thomas Edgley, 1710
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Developing Treatment Modalities For, and Characterization of ...
Results Part I. Development of therapeutic modalities for individuals with FD A. FD-derived cells and tissues express exon 20-containing/wild-type IKAP transcript In individuals with FD, the IVS20+6T_>C mutation in IKBKAP causes the ...
Jinsong Qiu, 2009
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PNH and the GPI-Linked Proteins
TABLE 2-3 continued Mutation Nucleotide Codon Detection number Exon/intron number Base change number aa change Consequence method Reference Comments 67 Exon 2 448 GA 150 valile Missense SSCA, HA Du et al., 1997 [32] 68 ...
Neal S. Young, Joel Moss, 2000
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A Defence of the Proceedings of the Late Assembly at Exon: ...
Being a Reply to Mr. Peirce's Remarks on Those Proceedings. To which are Added, Some Brief Animadversions on a Paper Subscribed by Mr. Peirce, &c. at the Time of the Assembly, and Now Publish'd with His Remarks. And Also a Short  ...
John Enty, 1719
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An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms
substrings, and the problem is to choose the best subset of nonoverlapping substrings as a putative exon structure.26 We will model a putative exon with a weighted interval in the genomic sequence, which is described by three parameters (l,r ...
Neil C. Jones, Pavel Pevzner, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term exon is used in the context of the following news items.
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BioMarin (BMRN) PT Raised to $155 at UBS; Best Catalyst Path in …
[2] Our improved outlook on the DMD franchise is two-fold: (a) we now include risk-adjusted value for other exon-skipping programs – which ... «StreetInsider.com, Jul 15»
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Biotech Stocks to bet on - Immunomedics, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMMU …
... with chemorefractory wild-type KRAS (exon 2) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) compared to those patients treated with BSC alone. «Wall Street Observer, Jul 15»
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Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) - Research Analysts' Weekly Ratings …
We have raised our probabilities of approval by 10% (e.g. US approval for eteplirsen from 50% to 60%, and other exon skipping drugs from ... «sleekmoney, Jul 15»
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Biotech Stocks - Is It Still Worthwhile Trading? Progenics …
... treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) amenable to exon 51 skipping, and the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date ... «Wall Street Observer, Jul 15»
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New Molecular Testing Guidelines Pending for Colorectal Cancer
The draft guideline calls for extended mutational analysis that includes KRAS and NRAS codons 12 and 13 of exon 2, codons 59 and 61 of ... «OncLive, Jul 15»
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What Propelled Sarepta Therapeutics' Stock 19% Higher in June?
Eteplirsen is an exon-51 skipping RNA-interference drug designed to increase production of dystrophin, the sheath that surrounds and protects ... «Motley Fool, Jul 15»
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Homozygosity mapping and whole-genome sequencing reveals a …
The detection of such variants escapes the exon-focused techniques typically used in genetic analyses. Sequencing the entire genomic ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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AAV-mediated RLBP1 gene therapy improves the rate of dark …
The Lexicon mouse line TF0133 used in this research has a 496-bp deletion that begins in exon 3 and extends to the end of exon 4. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Loss-of-function variants in HIVEP2 are a cause of intellectual …
For Patient 1, her parents, and her unaffected brother, WES was performed by GeneDx Laboratory using the SureSelect XT2 All Exon V4 kit ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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A nonsense variant in HERC1 is associated with intellectual …
Exome was captured using the Agilent SureSelect Human All Exon 50 Mb Kit (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA) and sequenced on ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»

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