MicroRNA regulation and the variability of human cortical gene expression

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 4621-4628

  Zhang, Rui ^a,b,c   Su, Bing ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BINDING SITES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 49249114176     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn431     Document Type: Article

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