Aberrant allele frequencies of the SNPs located in microRNA target sites are potentially associated with human cancers

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 4535-4541

  Yu, Zhenbao ^a   Li, Zhen ^a,b   Jolicoeur, Normand ^a   Zhang, Linhua ^a   Fortin, Yves ^a   Wang, Edwin ^a   Wu, Meiqun ^a   Shen, Shi Hsiang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DATA MINING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BINDING SITES; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 34547843634     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm480     Document Type: Article

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