Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

In vivo functional analysis of non-conserved human lncRNAs associated with cardiometabolic traits

  • Xiangbo Ruan,
  • Ping Li,
  • Yi Chen,
  • Yu Shi,
  • Mehdi Pirooznia,
  • Fayaz Seifuddin,
  • Hiroshi Suemizu,
  • Yasuyuki Ohnishi,
  • Nao Yoneda,
  • Megumi Nishiwaki,
  • James Shepherdson,
  • Abhilash Suresh,
  • Komudi Singh,
  • Yonghe Ma,
  • Cheng-fei Jiang,
  • Haiming Cao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13688-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Majority of human long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are not conserved in mouse. Here the authors identify metabolic trait-associated lncRNA genes and show a functional role of a non-conserved human lncRNA, LINC01018, in lipid metabolism using a humanized mouse model.