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Editorial
. 2016 Jun 15;90(6):1141-1143.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.06.007.

Junk DNA Used in Cerebral Cortical Evolution

Thomas Pratt  1 , David J Price  2
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Junk DNA Used in Cerebral Cortical Evolution

Thomas Pratt et al. Neuron. .
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Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Rani et al. (2016) address important questions about the mechanisms of cerebral cortical evolution. They describe how a primate-specific long non-coding RNA titrates the levels of a microRNA that regulates an ancient signaling pathway controlling neuronal numbers.

Keywords: Notch signaling; cerebral cortical development; competing endogenous RNA; long non-coding RNA; microRNA.

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