Clustering and conservation patterns of human microRNAs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2697-2706

  Altuvia, Yael ^c   Landgraf, Pablo ^a   Lithwick, Gila ^c   Elefant, Naama ^c   Pfeffer, Sébastien ^a   Aravin, Alexei ^a   Brownstein, Michael J ^b   Tuschl, Thomas ^a   Margalit, Hanah ^c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

MAMMALIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICRORNAS;

EID: 18744367544     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki567     Document Type: Article

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