Prediction of novel microRNA genes in cancer-associated genomic regions - A combined computational and experimental approach

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3276-3287

  Oulas, Anastasis ^a,b   Boutla, Alexandra ^b   Gkirtzou, Katerina ^b,c   Reczko, Martin ^d   Kalantidis, Kriton ^a,b   Poirazi, Panayiota ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d Institute of Molecular Oncology   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

GENES, NEOPLASM; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; RNA PRECURSORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67249093200     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp120     Document Type: Article

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