The dark side of a success story: microRNAs of the C19MC cluster in human tumours

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 270-274

  Flor, Inga ^a   Bullerdiek, Jörn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

C19MC; Epigenetic control; microRNAs; Placenta; Tumourigenesis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MICRORNA;

CANCER GENETICS; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 19; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CARCINOMA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICRORNAS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-2; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 84862025220     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: 10969896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.4014     Document Type: Note

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