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A major focus of Dr. Campbell's research is the long noncoding RNA's -- genes that are transcribed from DNA but not translated into protein. In the human brain noncoding RNA's have been overlooked...

Genetic studies have identified many risk loci for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) although causal factors in the majority of cases are still unknown. Currently, known ASD risk genes are all protein-coding genes; however, the vast majority of transcripts in humans are non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) which do not encode proteins. Recently, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) were shown to be highly expressed ...