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Sequence analysis showed a higher variability in the NIP/SIP classes.
NIP2;1 and NIP5;1 in this group lack intron 2, and intron 3 is missing from NIP3;1.
The computer-designed NIP3;1-pseudo last exon (132 residues) uses a different reading frame downstream of the conserved exon 5' splice site and extends beyond the conserved region for approximately 90 amino-acid residues.
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The paper cites other phrases that will have to be dropped if the standard of this case is widely adopted: "a chink in the armor," and "a nip in the air."