TUF love for "junk" DNA.

Willingham, Aarron T; Gingeras, Thomas R · Cell · 2006

review · Level V

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Abstract

The widespread occurrence of noncoding (nc) RNAs--unannotated eukaryotic transcripts with reduced protein coding potential--suggests that they are functionally important. Study of ncRNAs is increasing our understanding of the organization and regulation of genomes.

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