This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 318.

Song title: The Minor Intron Lights
Original Base by Base episode: 318: RNU6ATAC variants cause U6atac-driven minor spliceopathy with transcriptome-wide minor intron retention
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/rnu6atac-minor-spliceopathy

Article metadata:
Article title: Biallelic Variants in RNU6ATAC Result in a Minor Spliceopathy Characterized by Transcriptome-Wide Minor Intron Retention Events and Short Stature with Variable Multisystem Manifestations
Journal: Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, Journal Pre-proof
DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2026.100588
Reference: Mendez R, Arriaga TM, Ma J, Bonner DE, Emami S, Levy RJ, Alsagheir A, Alhaddad B, Bakur K, Ungar RA, Matalon DR, Miller AM, Nguyen J, Smith KS, Scott SA, Liao L, Ng Z, Marwaha S, Ward A, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Genomics Research to Elucidate the Genetics of Rare Diseases Consortium, Novacic D, Alkuraya FS, Bernstein JA, Ganesh VS, O’Donnell-Luria A, Montgomery SB, Wheeler MT, Biallelic Variants in RNU6ATAC Result in a Minor Spliceopathy Characterized by Transcriptome-Wide Minor Intron Retention Events and Short Stature with Variable Multisystem Manifestations, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances (2026), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2026.100588

Lyrics:
Verse 1
In the quiet lanes of a folded strand,
A hidden rhythm slips from hand to hand.
Little doors in the message don’t close on time,
And the whole wide chorus falls out of line.

Pre-Chorus
We traced the tremor through the script tonight,
From the smallest splice to the body’s fight.
Two tiny changes, and the gears misfire—
Hear that heartbeat under wire.

Chorus
Turn on the minor intron lights,
Let the small cuts make sense of nights.
When the words get stuck, we read them through,
Find the break, find the thread, find you.

Verse 2
A short horizon, bones and breath,
Signals tangled in the shade of health.
Blood and skin cells, the same refrain:
A subtle fault with a wide-spread pain.

Bridge
Not every clue is loud and clear,
Some are whispers you can only hear
When you line up the reads, let patterns speak,
And follow the missing where it leaks.

Final Chorus
Turn on the minor intron lights,
Let the small cuts make sense of nights.
If the splice runs slow, we won’t let go—
Name the glitch, map the cause, help life grow.