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Long Noncoding RNAs and Repetitive Elements: Junk or Intimate Evolutionary Partners?
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Dec 2019
Lee Hyunmin, Zhang Zhaolei, Krause Henry M
Abstract excerpt
Our recent ability to sequence entire genomes, along with all of their transcribed RNAs, has led to the surprising finding that only ∼1% of the human genome is used to encode proteins. This finding has led to vigorous debate over the functional importance of the transcribed but untranslated portions of the genome. Currently, scientists tend to assume coding genes are functional until proven not to be, while the...
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