Long Non-coding RNA

Long Non-coding RNA

Long non-coding RNAs (long ncRNAs, lncRNA) are non-protein coding transcripts longer than 200 nucleotides. This somewhat arbitrary limit distinguishes long ncRNAs from small regulatory RNAs such as microRNAs (miRNAs), short interfering RNAs (siRNAs), Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs), and other short RNAs.

Read more about Long Non-coding RNA:  Abundance of Long NcRNAs, Genomic Organization of Long NcRNAs, Conservation of Long NcRNAs, Long NcRNA Functions, Long Non-coding RNAs in Disease, Long Intergenic Non-coding RNAs (lincRNA)

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