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Alternative splicing of eukaryotic messenger RNA transcripts often leads to the production of several mature RNAs — including linear RNAs and circular RNAs (circRNAs) — from a single gene
locus. The names given to circRNAs are often ambiguous and lack consistency across studies. This Comment calls on the community to embrace a common nomenclature for naming circRNAs to ensure
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Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China Ling-Ling Chen * Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Giessen,
Germany Albrecht Bindereif * Department of Biology and Biotechnologies ‘Charles Darwin’ and IIT Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science@Sapienza, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Irene Bozzoni * Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Howard Y. Chang * Integrative Program in Biological and Genome
Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA A. Gregory Matera * Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, National
Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA Myriam Gorospe * Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Thomas B. Hansen & Jørgen Kjems * Center for Molecular Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Fudan University and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, International Laboratory of
Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Xu-Kai Ma & Li Yang * Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link National
University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Jun Wei Pek * Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Hemholtz Association, Berlin,
Germany Nikolaus Rajewsky * Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Julia Salzman * Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Therapeutic Innovation Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA Jeremy E. Wilusz * Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Fangqing Zhao
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