TUF love for "junk" DNA.
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.
Willingham
Aarron T
AT
Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA.
Gingeras
Thomas R
TR
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D021901:DNA, Intergenic; D022661:RNA, Untranslated