Chunk #15 — Non-coding RNA

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The future of genetics in psychology and psychiatry: microarrays, genome-wide association, and non-coding RNA.

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Looking beyond the 2% of coding DNA is likely to help resolve these problems. That is, ncRNA in the other 98% of the genome may be responsible for the linkages and associations that have eluded gene-hunters. An immediate impact of ncRNA is that the search is no longer gene-centred but genome-wide.