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P Perez1, S I Jang, I Alevizos
1Sjögren's Clinic, Molecular Physiology & Therapeutics, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Abstract:
The world of non-coding RNAs has only recently started being discovered. For the past 40 years, coding genes, mRNA, and proteins have been the center of cellular and molecular biology, and pathologic alterations were attributed to either the aberration of gene sequence or altered promoter activity. It was only after the completion of the human genome sequence that the scientific community started seriously wondering why only a very small portion of the genome corresponded to protein-coding genes. New technologies such as the whole-genome and whole-transcriptome sequencing demonstrated that at least 90% of the genome is actively transcribed. The identification and cataloguing of multiple kinds of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) have exponentially increased, and it is now widely accepted that ncRNAs play major biological roles in cellular physiology, development, metabolism, and are also implicated in a variety of diseases. The aim of this review is to describe the two major classes (long and short forms) of non-coding RNAs and describe their subclasses in terms of function and their relevance and potential in oral diseases.
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