Mike Clark
michaelbclark.bsky.social
Mike Clark
@michaelbclark.bsky.social
Genetics, transcriptomics, RNA and neuroscience.
Lab head at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Research has shown genetic risk for disease can be imparted at the isoform level, as well as the gene level. Therefore, understanding which isoforms genes express is essential to correctly determining the disease-associated isoforms and the molecular mechanisms behind disease aetiology.
October 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Overall we found more than 300 previously unreported RNA isoforms from 31 genes in brain. Some were highly abundant or even the dominant isoform, and we could show translation of novel RNAs into novel proteoforms, including new isoforms of the depression risk gene ITIH4 (see image).
October 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
- Different RNA isoforms from the same gene can have different modification rates at the same m6A site. Distance to a splice site, transcript 3' end, and the CDS versus UTR status of a nucleotide all exert influence.
August 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM