Vertebrate microRNA genes and CpG-islands

WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 73-81

  Ng, Ka Lok ^a   Huang, Chien Hung ^b   Tsai, Ming Cheng ^a  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CpG islands; Gene regulation; Methylation; MicroRNA; Promoter regions

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FROG; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; VERTEBRATE;

ANURA; RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954751942     PISSN: 11099518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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