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ArticleCell reports2015

Principles of long noncoding RNA evolution derived from direct comparison of transcriptomes in 17 species.

Hadas Hezroni, David Koppstein, Matthew G Schwartz, Alexandra Avrutin, David P Bartel, Igor Ulitsky

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Article in Cell reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 404 papers.

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404 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Hadas HezroniDepartment of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
David KoppsteinWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Matthew G SchwartzDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Alexandra AvrutinDepartment of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
David P BartelWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Igor UlitskyDepartment of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. Electronic address: igor.ulitsky@weizmann.ac.il.

Funding

PRE-DOCTORAL TRAINING IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCEST32GM007287 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BELL, STEPHEN P., KEATING, AMY E · 1985 to 2019
$40.8M
MicroRNA genes and their functionsR01GM067031 · NIGMS · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI BARTEL, DAVID P · 2002 to 2015
$7.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM067031NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067031NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007287
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inability to predict long noncoding RNAs from genomic sequence has impeded the use of comparative genomics for studying their biology. Here, we develop methods that use RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data to annotate the transcriptomes of 16 vertebrates and the echinoid sea urchin, uncovering thousands of previously unannotated genes, most of which produce long intervening noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs). Although in each species, >70% of lincRNAs cannot be traced to homologs in species that diverged >50 million years ago, thousands of human lincRNAs have homologs with similar expression patterns in other species. These homologs share short, 5'-biased patches of sequence conservation nested in exonic architectures that have been extensively rewired, in part by transposable element exonization. Thus, over a thousand human lincRNAs are likely to have conserved functions in mammals, and hundreds beyond mammals, but those functions require only short patches of specific sequences and can tolerate major changes in gene architecture.

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Evolution, MolecularBase SequenceConserved SequenceHumansRNA, Long NoncodingSequence Analysis, RNATranscriptomeRNA, Long Noncoding

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PMID25959816
PMCPMC4576741

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