Many long intergenic non-coding RNAs distally regulate mRNA gene expression levels
Ian C. McDowell, Athma A. Pai, Cong Guo, Christopher M. Vockley, Christopher D. Brown, Timothy E. Reddy, Barbara E. Engelhardt
The paper uses Mendelian randomization to study lincRNA regulation of mRNA expression across four tissues, finding linc-eQTLs similar to protein-coding eQTLs and identifying lincRNAs associated with adipose-related traits.
bioRxiv · Mar 19, 2016 · PreprintGenomics