“…The remaining genome consists of non-protein-coding regions, including numerous 'RNA only' genes, among which there is a large but diverse group called long non-coding RNAs or lncRNAs for short (Elkon and Agami, 2017;Dietlein et al, 2022;Paloviita and Vuoristo, 2022). Subsequent analyses have shown that lncRNAs fulfill various regulatory roles in healthy and cancerous tissues (Geng et al, 2018;Bi et al, 2019;Farzaneh et al, 2022a;Farzaneh et al, 2022b;Farzaneh et al, 2022c;Nasrolahi et al, 2022). As such, their expression and function are often altered in disease states (Kleinbrink et al, 2021;Yang et al, 2021;Anderson and Anderson, 2022;Dietlein et al, 2022;Erdogan et al, 2022) with selected examples now being used as diagnostic markers for various diseases including cancers (Li et al, 2019;Deng and Zou, 2022;Najafi et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022).…”