Long intergenic non-protein coding RNAs
long intergenic non-protein coding rnas
The HGNC defines long intergenic non-protein coding (LINC) RNAs as long non-coding RNA genes that do not overlap on either strand, or share a bidirectional promoter with, a protein coding gene and do not host either snoRNA or microRNA genes. These lincRNA genes are assigned the root symbol LINC# for 'long intergenic non-protein coding RNA' followed by a unique 5-digit number e.g. LINC00115.