Novel primate-specific genes, RMEL 1, 2 and 3, with highly restricted expression in melanoma, assessed by new data mining tool

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Sousa, Josane F ^a   Torrieri, Raul ^a   Silva, Rodrigo R ^a   Pereira, Cristiano G ^a   Valente, Valeria ^a   Torrieri, Erico ^a   Peronni, Kamila C ^a   Martins, Waleska ^b   Muto, Nair ^b   Francisco, Guilherme ^a   Brohem, Carla Abdo ^a   Carlotti, Carlos G ^a   Maria Engler, Silvya S ^a   Chammas, Roger ^a   Espreafico, Enilza M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER TISSUE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CHROMOSOME 21Q; CHROMOSOME 5Q; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DATA MINING; DRUG TARGETING; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NEVUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIMATE; PROGNOSIS; RMEL1 GENE; RMEL2 GENE; RMEL3 GENE; RNA STRUCTURE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MELANOMA; PRIMATES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 78149450632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013510     Document Type: Article

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