Oncomirs - MicroRNAs with a role in cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 259-269

  Esquela Kerscher, Aurora ^a   Slack, Frank J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; LET 7 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MIR 1 PROTEIN; MIR 143 PROTEIN; MIR 145 PROTEIN; MIR 15 PROTEIN; MIR 15A PROTEIN; MIR 16 1 PROTEIN; MIR 16 PROTEIN; MIR 181 PROTEIN; MIR 196 PROTEIN; MIR 221 PROTEIN; MIR 222 PROTEIN; MIR 273 PROTEIN; MIR 375 PROTEIN; MIR 430 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOINFORMATICS; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INHIBITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENES;

EID: 33645294070     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1840     Document Type: Review

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