Fewer Genes, More Noncoding RNA
- 2 September 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 309 (5740) , 1529-1530
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1116800
Abstract
Recent studies showing that most “messenger” RNAs do not encode proteins finally explain the long-standing discrepancy between the small number of protein-coding genes found in vertebrate genomes and the much larger and ever-increasing number of polyadenylated transcripts identified by tag-sampling or microarray-based methods. Exploring the role and diversity of these numerous noncoding RNAs now constitutes a main challenge in transcription research.Keywords
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