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Formation of a Family of Long Intergenic Noncoding RNA Genes with an Embedded Translocation Breakpoint Motif in Human Chromosomal Low Copy Repeats of 22q11.2—Some Surprises and Questions

A family of long intergenic noncoding RNA (lincRNA) genes, FAM230 is formed via gene sequence duplication, specifically in human chromosomal low copy repeats (LCR) or segmental duplications. This is the first group of lincRNA genes known to be formed by segmental duplications and is consistent with...

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Autor principal: Delihas, Nicholas
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6162681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30036931
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ncrna4030016
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description A family of long intergenic noncoding RNA (lincRNA) genes, FAM230 is formed via gene sequence duplication, specifically in human chromosomal low copy repeats (LCR) or segmental duplications. This is the first group of lincRNA genes known to be formed by segmental duplications and is consistent with current views of evolution and the creation of new genes via DNA low copy repeats. It appears to be an efficient way to form multiple lincRNA genes. But as these genes are in a critical chromosomal region with respect to the incidence of abnormal translocations and resulting genetic abnormalities, the 22q11.2 region, and also carry a translocation breakpoint motif, several intriguing questions arise concerning the presence and function of the translocation breakpoint sequence in RNA genes situated in LCR22s.
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spelling pubmed-61626812018-10-09 Formation of a Family of Long Intergenic Noncoding RNA Genes with an Embedded Translocation Breakpoint Motif in Human Chromosomal Low Copy Repeats of 22q11.2—Some Surprises and Questions Delihas, Nicholas Noncoding RNA Commentary A family of long intergenic noncoding RNA (lincRNA) genes, FAM230 is formed via gene sequence duplication, specifically in human chromosomal low copy repeats (LCR) or segmental duplications. This is the first group of lincRNA genes known to be formed by segmental duplications and is consistent with current views of evolution and the creation of new genes via DNA low copy repeats. It appears to be an efficient way to form multiple lincRNA genes. But as these genes are in a critical chromosomal region with respect to the incidence of abnormal translocations and resulting genetic abnormalities, the 22q11.2 region, and also carry a translocation breakpoint motif, several intriguing questions arise concerning the presence and function of the translocation breakpoint sequence in RNA genes situated in LCR22s. MDPI 2018-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6162681/ /pubmed/30036931 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ncrna4030016 Text en © 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Formation of a Family of Long Intergenic Noncoding RNA Genes with an Embedded Translocation Breakpoint Motif in Human Chromosomal Low Copy Repeats of 22q11.2—Some Surprises and Questions
title Formation of a Family of Long Intergenic Noncoding RNA Genes with an Embedded Translocation Breakpoint Motif in Human Chromosomal Low Copy Repeats of 22q11.2—Some Surprises and Questions
title_full Formation of a Family of Long Intergenic Noncoding RNA Genes with an Embedded Translocation Breakpoint Motif in Human Chromosomal Low Copy Repeats of 22q11.2—Some Surprises and Questions
title_fullStr Formation of a Family of Long Intergenic Noncoding RNA Genes with an Embedded Translocation Breakpoint Motif in Human Chromosomal Low Copy Repeats of 22q11.2—Some Surprises and Questions
title_full_unstemmed Formation of a Family of Long Intergenic Noncoding RNA Genes with an Embedded Translocation Breakpoint Motif in Human Chromosomal Low Copy Repeats of 22q11.2—Some Surprises and Questions
title_short Formation of a Family of Long Intergenic Noncoding RNA Genes with an Embedded Translocation Breakpoint Motif in Human Chromosomal Low Copy Repeats of 22q11.2—Some Surprises and Questions
title_sort formation of a family of long intergenic noncoding rna genes with an embedded translocation breakpoint motif in human chromosomal low copy repeats of 22q11.2—some surprises and questions
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6162681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30036931
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ncrna4030016
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