Genetic association and altered gene expression of mir-155 in multiple sclerosis patients

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 8695-8712

  Paraboschi, Elvezia Maria ^a   Soldà, Giulia ^a   Gemmati, Donato ^b   Orioli, Elisa ^b   Zeri, Giulia ^b   Benedetti, Maria Donata ^c   Salviati, Alessandro ^c   Barizzone, Nadia ^d   Leone, Maurizio ^d,e   Duga, Stefano ^a   Asselta, Rosanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^e Istituto di Radiologia Diagnostica e Interventistica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Association analysis; Expression profile; Mir 155; miRNA; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 155; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; MIRN155 MICRORNA, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UPREGULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LOCI; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84055221820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms12128695     Document Type: Article

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