Human thermogenic adipocyte regulation by the long noncoding RNA LINC00473

Human thermogenic adipose tissue mitigates metabolic disease, thus raising much interest in understanding its development and function. Here, we show that human thermogenic adipocytes specifically express a primate-specific long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), LINC00473, which is highly correlated with UCP1 expression and is decreased in obesity and type-2 diabetes. LINC00473 is detected in progenitor cells, and increases following differentiation and...