Biased hosting of intronic microRNA genes

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 992-995

  Golan, David ^a   Levy, Carmit ^b   Friedman, Brad ^c   Shomron, Noam ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

MICRORNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RNA SPLICING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MICRORNAS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 77951955175     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq077     Document Type: Article

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