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Enhancers make non-coding RNA

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Genomes don't just encode protein-coding RNAs. They also give rise to various groups of RNAs that can regulate gene expression. Short RNAs that form from enhancer sequences might be one such class of regulatory RNA.

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  1. Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Bing Ren is at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Institute of Genomic Medicine, and UCSD Moores Cancer Center, University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. biren@ucsd.edu,

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