Figure 1:
An example of a cartoon version of a locus we used in the survey to understand opinions across the scientific community on different options for choosing one transcript. These are the transcript scenarios presented for questions 2a (top panel) and 2b (bottom panel). For question 2a, and for question 2b, we asked respondents to choose either the first longer coding transcript, or the second more abundant (but shorter) one as a primary transcript. For both questions, the more abundant one (indicated by the blue arrow) was the most popular transcript choice for the non-clinical community (75%; 68%). However, there was no clear preference for this one (indicated by the blue arrow) from the clinical respondents (54%; 46%).