Integrative annotation of human large intergenic noncoding RNAs reveals global properties and specific subclasses

MN Cabili, C Trapnell, L Goff, M Koziol… - Genes & …, 2011 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Large intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) are emerging as key regulators of diverse
cellular processes. Determining the function of individual lincRNAs remains a challenge …

Pervasive transcription of the human genome produces thousands of previously unidentified long intergenic noncoding RNAs

MJ Hangauer, IW Vaughn, MT McManus - PLoS genetics, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Known protein coding gene exons compose less than 3% of the human genome. The
remaining 97% is largely uncharted territory, with only a small fraction characterized. The …

Evolutionary dynamics and tissue specificity of human long noncoding RNAs in six mammals

S Washietl, M Kellis, M Garber - Genome research, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) play diverse regulatory roles in human
development and disease, but little is known about their evolutionary history and constraint …

Principles of long noncoding RNA evolution derived from direct comparison of transcriptomes in 17 species

H Hezroni, D Koppstein, MG Schwartz, A Avrutin… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
The inability to predict long noncoding RNAs from genomic sequence has impeded the use
of comparative genomics for studying their biology. Here, we develop methods that use RNA …

The landscape of long noncoding RNAs in the human transcriptome

MK Iyer, YS Niknafs, R Malik, U Singhal, A Sahu… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are emerging as important regulators of tissue physiology
and disease processes including cancer. To delineate genome-wide lncRNA expression …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved function of lincRNAs in vertebrate embryonic development despite rapid sequence evolution

I Ulitsky, A Shkumatava, CH Jan, H Sive, DP Bartel - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Thousands of long intervening noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) have been identified in
mammals. To better understand the evolution and functions of these enigmatic RNAs, we …

lncRNAtor: a comprehensive resource for functional investigation of long non-coding RNAs

C Park, N Yu, I Choi, W Kim, S Lee - Bioinformatics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: A number of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been identified by deep
sequencing methods, but their molecular and cellular functions are known only for a limited …

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

JD Ransohoff, Y Wei, PA Khavari - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) genes have diverse features that distinguish
them from mRNA-encoding genes and exercise functions such as remodelling chromatin …

Long noncoding RNA (lincRNA), a new paradigm in gene expression control

E Deniz, B Erman - Functional & integrative genomics, 2017 - Springer
Long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) are defined as RNA transcripts that are longer
than 200 nucleotides. By definition, these RNAs must not have open reading frames that …

The GENCODE v7 catalog of human long noncoding RNAs: analysis of their gene structure, evolution, and expression

T Derrien, R Johnson, G Bussotti, A Tanzer… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
The human genome contains many thousands of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). While
several studies have demonstrated compelling biological and disease roles for individual …