RESEARCH ARTICLE The novel lncRNA lnc-NR2F1 is pro- neurogenic and mutated in human neurodevelopmental disorders Cheen Euong Ang1,2†, Qing Ma3,4,5†, Orly L Wapinski3,4,5†, ShengHua Fan6, Ryan A Flynn3,4,5, Qian Yi Lee1,2, Bradley Coe7, Masahiro Onoguchi3,4,5, Victor Hipolito Olmos1, Brian T Do3, Lynn Dukes-Rimsky6, Jin Xu3, Koji Tanabe1, LiangJiang Wang8, Ulrich Elling9, Josef M Penninger9, Yang Zhao3, Kun Qu3,9§, Evan E Eichler7, Anand Srivastava6,8‡, Marius Wernig1‡*, Howard Y Chang3‡* 1Department of Pathology, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, United States; 2Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States; 3Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes, Stanford University, Stanford, United States; 4Department of Dermatology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States; 5Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, United States; 6JC Self Research Institute of *For correspondence: Human Genetics, Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, United States;
[email protected] (MW); 7Department of Genome Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of
[email protected] (HYC) Washington, Seattle, United States; 8Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, †These authors contributed Clemson University, Clemson, United States; 9Institute of Molecular Biotechnology equally to this work of the Austrian Academy of Science (IMBA), Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria ‡These authors also contributed equally to this work Present address: §CAS Key Laboratory