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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Ulf Ørom
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-23549 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Ørom Ulf Andersson UA Derrien Thomas T Beringer Malte M Gumireddy Kiranmai K Gardini Alessandro A Bussotti Giovanni G Lai Fan F Zytnicki Matthias M Notredame Cedric C Huang Qihong Q Guigo Roderic R Shiekhattar Ramin R
Cell 20101001 1
While the long noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) constitute a large portion of the mammalian transcriptome, their biological functions has remained elusive. A few long ncRNAs that have been studied in any detail silence gene expression in processes such as X-inactivation and imprinting. We used a GENCODE annotation of the human genome to characterize over a thousand long ncRNAs that are expressed in multiple cell lines. Unexpectedly, we found an enhancer-like function for a set of these long ncRNAs in hum ...[more]