Topic: CNS-LNC

The vast majority of the human genome consists of noncoding elements, including introns, intergenic regions, and various types of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). As such, protein-coding genes represent only 1.5% of the transcriptome while the remaining 98,5% are ncRNAs. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) form the largest class of ncRNAs and are characterized by a length of more than 200 nucleotides. The role of lncRNAs in the central nervous system (CNS) is still not well understood. In this project we identified a novel lncRNA that we named CNS-LNC due to its specific expression pattern in the adult bra