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lrnassar
  Wed Apr 22 12:51:20 2026 -0700
Update NMD Escape newsarch entry to match shipped Rule 2 definition. refs #33737

Rule 2 is no longer the 'intronless transcript rule' after the round 4
gate refinement (single coding exon AND no 3'UTR intron). Updated the
newsarch entry to match.

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html
index b3e19653e23..1e6d0beaeed 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html
@@ -72,31 +72,32 @@
 track on the human genome assembly (GRCh38/hg38). This track collection displays
 regions where premature termination codons (PTCs) are predicted to escape
 nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), a cellular quality control mechanism that normally
 degrades transcripts with premature stop codons. Identifying NMD escape regions is
 important for interpreting the clinical significance of truncating variants under the
 ACMG/AMP PVS1 criterion.
 </p>
 <p>
 The container track includes:
 </p>
 <ul>
   <li><b>NMD escape ruleset</b> tracks for
   <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=nmdEscGencode" target="_blank">GENCODE V49</a> and
   <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=nmdEscNcbiRefSeq" target="_blank">NCBI RefSeq</a>
   transcripts, applying four rules derived from Nagy &amp; Maquat 1998 and Lindeboom
-  et al. 2016: the 50&nbsp;bp last-junction rule, the intronless transcript rule, the
+  et al. 2016: the 50&nbsp;bp last-junction rule, the no-downstream-EJC rule
+  (transcripts with a single coding exon and no 3&#8242;UTR intron), the
   start-proximal 100&nbsp;bp rule, and the long-exon rule (PTCs in coding exons
   longer than 400&nbsp;bp, which show reduced NMD efficiency due to the large
   distance between the stalled ribosome and the downstream EJC).</li>
   <li><b>NMDetective</b> machine-learning prediction tracks from
   <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27618451" target="_blank">Lindeboom et al. 2016</a>,
   providing continuous NMD efficiency scores for every possible PTC position.</li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 We would like to thank Guido Neidhardt and Andreas Lahner for suggesting this track
 and providing feedback throughout its development, and the Decipher
 Genome Browser team for inspiring this type of visualization. We also would like to thank Max 
 Haeussler and Lou Nassar for the creation and release of the UCSC Genome Browser tracks. 
 </p>
 
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