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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Fang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6088266 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Future science OA 20180523 7
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a large class of noncoding RNAs characterized with closed loop structures without 3' and 5' polar ends. They can roughly be divided into exonic circRNAs, exon-intron circRNAs and circular intronic RNAs. CircRNAs are characterized with stability, prevalence, specificity and conservation, which arouse great interest in circRNAs as disease biomarkers. Their abilities to sponge to miRNAs, cis-regulate parent genes, bind to proteins and encode proteins endow circRNAs a cr ...[more]