Toward a combinatorial nature of microRNA regulation in human cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 9404-9416

  Balaga, Ohad ^a   Friedman, Yitzhak ^a   Linial, Michal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL ACTIVITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC RESOURCE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICRORNAS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84868109838     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks759     Document Type: Article

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