Comparative analysis of human and mouse expression data illuminates tissue-specific evolutionary patterns of miRNAs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 5890-5900

  Roux, Julien ^a,b   Gonzàlez Porta, Mar ^a,b   Robinson Rechavi, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

AGE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864449330     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks279     Document Type: Article

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