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Dark matter RNA illuminates the puzzle of genome-wide association studies

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, June 2014
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Title
Dark matter RNA illuminates the puzzle of genome-wide association studies
Published in
BMC Medicine, June 2014
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-12-97
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Authors

Georges St. Laurent, Yuri Vyatkin, Philipp Kapranov

Abstract

In the past decade, numerous studies have made connections between sequence variants in human genomes and predisposition to complex diseases. However, most of these variants lie outside of the charted regions of the human genome whose function we understand; that is, the sequences that encode proteins. Consequently, the general concept of a mechanism that translates these variants into predisposition to diseases has been lacking, potentially calling into question the validity of these studies. Here we make a connection between the growing class of apparently functional RNAs that do not encode proteins and whose function we do not yet understand (the so-called 'dark matter' RNAs) and the disease-associated variants. We review advances made in a different genomic mapping effort - unbiased profiling of all RNA transcribed from the human genome - and provide arguments that the disease-associated variants exert their effects via perturbation of regulatory properties of non-coding RNAs existing in mammalian cells.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Netherlands 1 2%
Norway 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 45 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 31%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 12%
Student > Master 5 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Professor 4 8%
Other 8 16%
Unknown 7 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 43%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 10%
Mathematics 1 2%
Computer Science 1 2%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 8 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 November 2015.
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#1,486,822
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#20
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