RNA editing of human microRNAs

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Blow, Matthew J ^a   Grocock, Russell J ^a   van Dongen, Stijn ^a   Enright, Anton J ^a   Dicks, Ed ^a   Futreal, P Andrew ^a   Wooster, Richard ^a   Stratton, Michael R ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GENOMIC DNA; INOSINE; MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA PRECURSOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; RNA EDITING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

ADENOSINE; HUMANS; INOSINE; MICRORNAS; RNA EDITING; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

EID: 33745053086     PISSN: 1474760X     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-4-r27     Document Type: Article

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