Long Non-coding RNAs in Human Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Morris, Kevin V. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 394
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Human genetics.; Immunology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Human Genetics.

This volume focuses on the roles of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in contexts ranging from human cancers to cardiovascular disease and ageing. The role of lncRNAs in X-inactivation and those lncRNAs derived from pseudogenes, past retroelements integrated within the human genome, as well as the role...