Discovery of hundreds of mirtrons in mouse and human small RNA data

Genome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1634-1645

  Ladewig, Erik ^a   Okamura, Katsutomo ^a,b   Flynt, Alex S ^a   Westholm, Jakub O ^a   Lai, Eric C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DICER; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAMMAL; MIRTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84865837750     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.133553.111     Document Type: Article

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