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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2014 Jun 20;60(2):744–753. doi: 10.1002/hep.27043

Figure 1. Schematic of mRNA and non-coding RNA encoded within the human genome.

Figure 1

Protein coding RNA comprises of less than 2% of the genome. Biological function is ascribed to ~ 80% of the genome. The long non-coding RNA comprise of an unknown number of genes, but are likely to exceed the total number of mRNAs.