Glycoprotein hormone receptors contain a large extracellular domain that
is encoded by multiple exons, facilitating the possibility of expressing
alternatively spliced transcripts. We have cloned two new splice variants
of the rat follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) receptor gene: FSH-R1 and
FSH-R2. The splice variant FSH-R1 differs from the full-length FSH
receptor mRNA by the inclusion of a small extra exon between exons 9 and
10. FSH-R2 lacks the first three base pairs o
