Searching for potential microRNA-binding site mutations amongst known disease-associated 3′ UTR variants

Genomic Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 29-33

  Chuzhanova, Nadia ^a   Cooper, David N ^a   Férec, Claude ^b,c,d,e   Chen, Jian Min ^b,c,d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE ET DES SCIENCES DE LA SANTÉ   (France)

^d ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

^e CHU MORVAN   (France)

Author keywords

3 Untranslated region; 3 UTR; Cis acting regulatory elements; Human inherited disease; MicroRNA; MiRNA target site mutation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548223128     PISSN: 18717934     EISSN: 18717942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11568-006-9000-3     Document Type: Article

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