Circular RNAs: a rising star in respiratory diseases

Abstract Circular RNAs (CircRNAs), as a new class of non-coding RNA molecules that, unlike linear RNAs, have covalently closed loop structures from the ligation of exons, introns, or both. CircRNAs are widely expressed in various organisms in a specie-, tissue-, disease- and developmental stage-spec...

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Main Authors: Jian Wang, Mengchan Zhu, Jue Pan, Cuicui Chen, Shijin Xia, Yuanlin Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-01-01
Series:Respiratory Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12931-018-0962-1