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The functions and unique features of long intergenic non-coding RNA.

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Long intergenic non-coding RNA genes have diverse features that distinguish them from mRNA-encoding genes and exercise functions such as remodelling chromatin and genome architecture, RNA stabilization and transcription regulation, including enhancer-associated activity.
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Long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) genes have diverse features that distinguish them from mRNA-encoding genes and exercise functions such as remodelling chromatin and genome architecture, RNA stabilization and transcription regulation, including enhancer-associated activity. Some genes currently annotated as encoding lincRNAs include small open reading frames (smORFs) and encode functional peptides and thus may be more properly classified as coding RNAs. lincRNAs may broadly serve to fine-tune the expression of neighbouring genes with remarkable tissue specificity through a diversity of mechanisms, highlighting our rapidly evolving understanding of the non-coding genome.

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The Role of Non-coding RNAs in Oncology

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Long Non-Coding RNA in the Pathogenesis of Cancers.

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A comparative encyclopedia of DNA elements in the mouse genome

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TL;DR: By comparing with the human genome, this work not only confirms substantial conservation in the newly annotated potential functional sequences, but also finds a large degree of divergence of sequences involved in transcriptional regulation, chromatin state and higher order chromatin organization.
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LncRNA-mediated posttranslational modifications and reprogramming of energy metabolism in cancer

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Re‐evaluating the foundations of lncRNA–Polycomb function

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LncSubpathway: a novel approach for identifying dysfunctional subpathways associated with risk lncRNAs by integrating lncRNA and mRNA expression profiles and pathway topologies

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