How long is the shortest intron? - (Mar/19/2007 )

Hi all,
Recently, I am doing some research on Intron of Human beings, and I found that the Ensembl Database of human_40 containing a large number of intron that is just one bp or a few bp. Is it a mistake or real mini intron?

thanks a million for any reply!

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Shortest introns are around 30 bp.

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What is the attribute you refered to as intron in ensemble database?

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I just use the perl module to extrat the intron part of Genes, such as '$trans->get_all_Introns'

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I would suggest you to pull those record out and take a close look at them, it doesn't sound right too me. I would think these are either not verified or predicted gene/introns.

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