Emerging roles of long noncoding RNAs in neurological diseases and metabolic disorders

• Main Author: Yingqun Huang (auth)
• Other Authors: William Cho (auth), Romano Regazzi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); lncRNA; Beta-cell; Metabolism; Neurological Diseases; diabetes
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a new class of transcripts that are in general longer than 200 nucleotides and that have no protein-coding potential. The vast majority of vertebrate genomes encode diverse and complex lncRNAs that play regulatory roles at almost every step of gene expression. Recen...