A central role for long non-coding RNA in cancer

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Mitra, Sheetal A ^a   Mitra, Anirban P ^a,b   Triche, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Diagnosis; Non coding RNA; Prognosis; Tumor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868664680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00017     Document Type: Article

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