Target gene expression levels and competition between transfected and endogenous microRNAs are strong confounding factors in microRNA high-throughput experiments

Silence

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Saito, Takaya ^a   Sætrom, Pål ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Microarray; MicroRNA targets; PAR CLIP; Proteomics; SiRNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEOMICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84859978927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1758907X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-907X-3-3     Document Type: Article

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