In molecular biology, WT1 antisense RNA (non-protein coding), also known as WT1-AS or WIT1, is a long non-coding RNA. In humans, it is found on chromosome 11 and is expressed in kidney.[1] It is transcribed in the opposite direction to the WT1 gene.[2] It is functionally imprinted in the human kidney, where only the paternal allele is expressed, but not in the foetal kidney.[3]
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editReferences
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- ^ Malik K, Salpekar A, Hancock A, Moorwood K, Jackson S, Charles A, et al. (2000). "Identification of differential methylation of the WT1 antisense regulatory region and relaxation of imprinting in Wilms' tumor". Cancer Res. 60 (9): 2356–2360. PMID 10811108.
Further reading
edit- Hancock AL, Brown KW, Moorwood K, Moon H, Holmgren C, Mardikar SH, et al. (2007). "A CTCF-binding silencer regulates the imprinted genes AWT1 and WT1-AS and exhibits sequential epigenetic defects during Wilms' tumourigenesis". Hum Mol Genet. 16 (3): 343–354. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.551.9843. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddl478. PMID 17210670.