U1 small nuclear (sn)RNA, required for splicing of pre-mRNA, is encoded by genes on chromosome 1p36. Imperfect copies of these ‘true’ (t)U1 snRNA genes, located on chromosome 1q12-21, were thought to be pseudogenes. However, many of these ‘variant’ (v)U1 snRNA genes produce fully-processed transcrip...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens