“AT THE INTERSECTION of non-coding transcription, DNA repair, chromatin structure, and cellular senescence. Recent paradigm-setting studies are now revealing that non-coding RNAs, other than microRNAs, also play intriguing roles in the maintenance of chromatin structure, in the DNA damage response, and in adult human stem cell aging.”
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2013.00136/full