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Exinct stands for extended inhibitory context. It was first described by Singh and coworkers to define a negative sequence within the coding region of SMN2 gene [1] [2] [3]. Thanks to presence of Exinct, SMN2 gene is not able to produce the normal protein. In fact, Exinct causes aberrant splicing of exon 7, leading to the production of a short SMN transcript that makes a truncated non-functional SMN protein. Inability of SMN2 to make the full-length protein causes spinal muscular atropy (SMA), a debalitating disease of children and infant [4].