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BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS
Volume 44, Issue -, Pages 1073-1078Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BST20160089
Keywords
ncRNA; RNase mitochondrial RNA processing (MRP); small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA); small nuclear RNA (snRNA); telomerase RNA component (TERC); tRNA
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- Wellcome Trust [104981]
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Many human diseases have been attributed to mutation in the protein coding regions of the human genome. The protein coding portion of the human genome, however, is very small compared with the non-coding portion of the genome. As such, there are a disproportionate number of diseases attributed to the coding compared with the non-coding portion of the genome. It is now clear that the non-coding portion of the genome produces many functional non-coding RNAs and these RNAs are slowly being linked to human diseases. Here we discuss examples where mutation in classical non-coding RNAs have been attributed to human disease and identify the future potential for the non-coding portion of the genome in disease biology.
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