Expression levels of microRNAs are not associated with their regulatory activities

Biology Direct

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Liang, Zhi ^a   Zhou, Hong ^b   Zheng, Haoran ^b   Wu, Jiarui ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

MicroRNA; microRNA activity; microRNA expression

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; STATISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 80052862997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-43     Document Type: Article

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