Parts of genome without a known function may play a key role in the birth of new proteins

Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 05:03 in Biology & Nature

RNA called non-coding plays an important role in the evolution of new proteins, some of which could have important cell functions yet to be discovered, a study shows. The study analysed experiments carried out on six different species and identified almost 2,500 IncRNAs that were not in known databases.

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