Talk:Interrupted gene

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Speedy Deletion
This article provides a simple overview of what an interrupted gene is. The page was created to help people understand what an interrupted gene is, since no clear explanation is given in any articles, nor through a Google search. Granted, while the process of DNA splicing is much more complex, the links to introns and exons provide greater detail about their role. Rrten00 20:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. I do not think this is a speedyable article.  I have a basic, college intro-level understanding of genetics, but I didn't know what an interrupted gene was.  Now I do.  I'd like to remove the tag, any objections?  delldot | talk 20:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the speedy deletion tag. This is a valid subject and the article is a reasonable start on it. —Quarl (talk) 2006-12-10 20:48Z 

Disputed
This article needs a lot of cleaning up to correct false and misleading information.

I recommend that it be deleted or converted to a stub that refers back to Gene and Intron. Genome42 (talk) 23:15, 6 March 2023 (UTC)


 * @Genome42 I agree. I generally err on the side of 'inclusionism' but the useful content in this page is so close to just a duplicate of the Intron#Discovery that I think stubbifying this back to a simple definition of "Interrupted gene" would be best, with maybe a couple of sentences on its historical relevance as a term (it's a particularly commonly used any more as far as I'm aware).
 * By keeping a stub definion here (rather than a simple redirect somewhere else) we avoid having to say something like "Genes with introns used to sometimes be called interrrupted genes in such and such context" in the middle of whatever page was redirected to. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 05:23, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Split gene
"Split gene" currently redirects here. I've actually seen the term 'split gene' used more commonly to refer to the genes used in protein-fragment complementation systems - and occasionally even for a gene whose RNA undergoes trans-splicing (example) or that enodes an intein-containing protein (example). What do people think of having Split gene be a disambiguation that acknowledges that the term has been used an a few different contexts and link to the most common ones? T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 05:39, 23 March 2023 (UTC)