MicroRNAs, epigenetics and disease

Essays in Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue , 2010, Pages 165-185

  Silahtaroglu, Asli ^a   Stenvang, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; REVIEW;

DISEASE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MICRORNAS;

EID: 79952113191     PISSN: 00711365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BSE0480165     Document Type: Article

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