Functional annotation of structural ncRNAs within enhancer RNAs in the human genome: implications for human disease.

ABSTRACT: Enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) are a novel class of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecules transcribed from the DNA sequences of enhancer regions. Despite extensive efforts devoted to revealing the potential functions and underlying mechanisms of eRNAs, it remains an open question whether eRNAs are mere transcriptional noise or relevant biologically functional species. Here, we identified a catalogue of eRNAs in a broad range of human cell/tissue types and extended our understanding of eRNAs by demonstrating their multi-omic signatures. Gene Ontology (GO) analysis revealed that eRNAs play key roles in human cell identity. Furthermore, we detected numerous known and novel functional RNA structures within eRNA regions. To better characterize the cis-regulatory effects of non-coding variation in these struc

SUBMITTER: Ren C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5686184 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature