RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Functional Annotation of Human Long Non-Coding RNAs via Molecular Phenotyping JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 700864 DO 10.1101/700864 A1 Jordan Ramilowski A1 Chi Wai Yip A1 Saumya Agrawal A1 Jen-Chien Chang A1 Yari Ciani A1 Ivan V Kulakovskiy A1 Mickael Mendez A1 Jasmine Li Ching Ooi A1 John F Ouyang A1 Nick Parkinson A1 Andreas Petri A1 Leonie Roos A1 Jessica Severin A1 Kayoko Yasuzawa A1 Imad Abugessaisa A1 Altuna Akalin A1 Ivan Antonov A1 Erik Arner A1 Alessandro Bonetti A1 Hidemasa Bono A1 Beatrice Borsari A1 Frank Brombacher A1 Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci A1 Ryan Cardenas A1 Melissa Cardon A1 Howard Chang A1 Josée Dostie A1 Luca Ducoli A1 Alexander Favorov A1 Alexandre Fort A1 Diego Garrido A1 Noa Gil A1 Juliette Gimenez A1 Reto Guler A1 Lusy Handoko A1 Jayson Harshbarger A1 Akira Hasegawa A1 Yuki Hasegawa A1 Kosuke Hashimoto A1 Norihito Hayatsu A1 Peter Heutink A1 Tetsuro Hirose A1 Eddie L Imada A1 Masayoshi Itoh A1 Bogumil Kaczkowski A1 Aditi Kanhere A1 Emily Kawabata A1 Hideya Kawaji A1 Tsugumi Kawashima A1 Tom Kelly A1 Miki Kojima A1 Naoto Kondo A1 Haruhiko Koseki A1 Tsukasa Kouno A1 Anton Kratz A1 Mariola Kurowska-Stolarska A1 Andrew Tae Jun Kwon A1 Jeffrey Leek A1 Andreas Lennartsson A1 Marina Lizio A1 Fernando Lopez A1 Joachim Luginbühl A1 Shiori Maeda A1 Vsevolod Makeev A1 Luigi Marchionni A1 Yulia A Medvedeva A1 Aki Minoda A1 Ferenc Müller A1 Manuel Munoz Aguirre A1 Mitsuyoshi Murata A1 Hiromi Nishiyori A1 Kazuhiro Nitta A1 Shuhei Noguchi A1 Yukihiko Noro A1 Ramil Nurtdinov A1 Yasushi Okazaki A1 Valerio Orlando A1 Denis Paquette A1 Callum Parr A1 Owen JL Rackham A1 Patrizia Rizzu A1 Diego Fernando Sanchez A1 Albin Sandelin A1 Pillay Sanjana A1 Colin AM Semple A1 Harshita Sharma A1 Youtaro Shibayama A1 Divya Sivaraman A1 Takahiro Suzuki A1 Suzannah Szumowski A1 Michihira Tagami A1 Martin S Taylor A1 Chikashi Terao A1 Malte Thodberg A1 Supat Thongjuea A1 Vidisha Tripathi A1 Igor Ulitsky A1 Roberto Verardo A1 Ilya Vorontsov A1 Chinatsu Yamamoto A1 Robert S Young A1 J Kenneth Baillie A1 Alistair RR Forrest A1 Roderic Guigó A1 Michael M Hoffman A1 Chung Chau Hon A1 Takeya Kasukawa A1 Sakari Kauppinen A1 Juha Kere A1 Boris Lenhard A1 Claudio Schneider A1 Harukazu Suzuki A1 Ken Yagi A1 FANTOM consortium A1 Michiel de Hoon A1 Jay W Shin A1 Piero Carninci YR 2019 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/07/14/700864.abstract AB Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) constitute the majority of transcripts in mammalian genomes and yet, their functions remain largely unknown. We systematically suppressed 285 lncRNAs in human dermal fibroblasts and quantified cellular growth, morphological changes, and transcriptomic responses using Capped Analysis of Gene Expression (CAGE). The resulting transcriptomic profiles recapitulated the observed cellular phenotypes, yielding specific roles for over 40% of analyzed lncRNAs in regulating distinct biological pathways, transcriptional machinery, alternative promoter activity and architecture usage. Overall, combining cellular and molecular profiling provided a powerful approach to unravel the distinct functions of lncRNAs, which we highlight with specific functional roles for ZNF213-AS1 and lnc-KHDC3L-2.