TUF love for "junk" DNA.

Summary

The widespread occurrence of noncoding (nc) RNAs--unannotated eukaryotic transcripts with reduced protein coding potential--suggests that they are functionally important.

Keywords

Biology, Noncoding DNA, Genome, Genetics, DNA

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