Literature relevant to the genes were identified by querying PubMed using the approved HGNC gene symbol, name, and alias, including a set of noncoding regions (introns OR promoter OR UTR OR miRNA OR insulator OR enhancer OR silencer) and restricted to abstracts that have been indexed to the MeSH term “human.” The full texts of these papers were downloaded via PubGet (http://pubget.com/) and EndNote (http://www.endnote.com/) and converted into plain text using pdf2text (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html).
