Camels and zebrafish, viruses and cancer: A microRNA update

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2005, Pages

  Berezikov, Eugene ^a   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

BIOGENESIS; CAMEL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL TYPE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; ONCOGENE RAS; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; WART VIRUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICRORNAS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASMS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRUSES; ZEBRAFISH;

CAMELIDAE; DANIO RERIO; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPES;

EID: 27744477538     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi271     Document Type: Review

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