MicroRNAs: A new class of gene regulators

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 197-208

  Guarnieri, Douglas J ^a,b   Dileone, Ralph J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; microRNAs; Molecular mechanism of disease

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 41649109188     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: 16512219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07853890701771823     Document Type: Review

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