Unlocking the potential of the human genome with RNA interference

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7006, 2004, Pages 371-378

  Hannon, Gregory J ^a   Rossi, John J ^b  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA;

GENE FUNCTIONS; RNA INTERFERENCE (RNAI);

GENES;

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN KINASE; RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

RNA;

ALLELE; BASE PAIRING; CANCER; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME BINDING; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DISORDER; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; GENE THERAPY; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VECTORS;

EID: 4644350944     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02870     Document Type: Review

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