Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency
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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Marvin Jens
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-43574 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency.
Memczak Sebastian S Jens Marvin M Elefsinioti Antigoni A Torti Francesca F Krueger Janna J Rybak Agnieszka A Maier Luisa L Mackowiak Sebastian D SD Gregersen Lea H LH Munschauer Mathias M Loewer Alexander A Ziebold Ulrike U Landthaler Markus M Kocks Christine C le Noble Ferdinand F Rajewsky Nikolaus N
Nature 20130227 7441
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) in animals are an enigmatic class of RNA with unknown function. To explore circRNAs systematically, we sequenced and computationally analysed human, mouse and nematode RNA. We detected thousands of well-expressed, stable circRNAs, often showing tissue/developmental-stage-specific expression. Sequence analysis indicated important regulatory functions for circRNAs. We found that a human circRNA, antisense to the cerebellar degeneration-related protein 1 transcript (CDR1as) ...[more]
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