Transcriptional regulation by lncRNAs examined via TETRIS assay

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of gene transcripts that do not code for a protein product, but instead interact in the cell. Recent studies have identified thousands of predicted lncRNAs in the human genome, and evidence increasingly suggests their importance in development and disease, yet few have a known function. Of these, many lncRNAs affect epigenetic states by regulating transcription, such as Xist, which silences genes in X chromosome inactivation.Bachelor of Scienc