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Small non-coding RNAs could be warning signs of cancerSmall non-coding RNAs are RNA molecules that do not give rise to proteins but which may have other important functions in the cell. "For many years, small non-coding RNAs near transcriptional start sites have been regarded as transcriptional noise due to their apparent chaotic distribution and an inability to correlate these molecules with known functions or disease, explains Steven Jones, ...