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The genetic signatures of noncoding RNAs

Mattick, John S Lee, Jeannie T.

PLoS genetics, 2009-04, Vol.5 (4), p.e1000459-e1000459 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Public Library of Science

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The genetic signatures of noncoding RNAs
Autor: Mattick, John S
Lee, Jeannie T.
Assuntos: Animals ; DNA sequencing ; Epigenetics ; Gene mutations ; Genetics ; Genetics and Genomics ; Genetics and Genomics/Animal Genetics ; Genetics and Genomics/Cancer Genetics ; Genetics and Genomics/Complex Traits ; Genetics and Genomics/Epigenetics ; Genetics and Genomics/Functional Genomics ; Genetics and Genomics/Gene Discovery ; Genetics and Genomics/Gene Function ; Genetics and Genomics/Genomics ; Genetics and Genomics/Medical Genetics ; Genomes ; Health aspects ; Heart attacks ; Humans ; Methods ; Models, Genetic ; Mutation ; Nucleotide sequencing ; Physiological aspects ; Proteins ; Regulation ; Review ; RNA ; RNA, Untranslated - genetics ; RNA, Untranslated - metabolism
É parte de: PLoS genetics, 2009-04, Vol.5 (4), p.e1000459-e1000459
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Descrição: The majority of the genome in animals and plants is transcribed in a developmentally regulated manner to produce large numbers of non-protein-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), whose incidence increases with developmental complexity. There is growing evidence that these transcripts are functional, particularly in the regulation of epigenetic processes, leading to the suggestion that they compose a hitherto hidden layer of genomic programming in humans and other complex organisms. However, to date, very few have been identified in genetic screens. Here I show that this is explicable by an historic emphasis, both phenotypically and technically, on mutations in protein-coding sequences, and by presumptions about the nature of regulatory mutations. Most variations in regulatory sequences produce relatively subtle phenotypic changes, in contrast to mutations in protein-coding sequences that frequently cause catastrophic component failure. Until recently, most mapping projects have focused on protein-coding sequences, and the limited number of identified regulatory mutations have been interpreted as affecting conventional cis-acting promoter and enhancer elements, although these regions are often themselves transcribed. Moreover, ncRNA-directed regulatory circuits underpin most, if not all, complex genetic phenomena in eukaryotes, including RNA interference-related processes such as transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing, position effect variegation, hybrid dysgenesis, chromosome dosage compensation, parental imprinting and allelic exclusion, paramutation, and possibly transvection and transinduction. The next frontier is the identification and functional characterization of the myriad sequence variations that influence quantitative traits, disease susceptibility, and other complex characteristics, which are being shown by genome-wide association studies to lie mostly in noncoding, presumably regulatory, regions. There is every possibility that many of these variations will alter the interactions between regulatory RNAs and their targets, a prospect that should be borne in mind in future functional analyses.
Editor: United States: Public Library of Science
Idioma: Inglês

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Mattick, John S Lee, Jeannie T.

United States: Public Library of Science

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