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Existence of RNA 'dark matter' in doubt

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The abundance of transcripts from the genome may have been overestimated.

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Lee Phillips, M. Existence of RNA 'dark matter' in doubt. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.248

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