Evolution of the human-specific microRNA miR-941

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hu, Hai Yang ^a   He, Liu ^a,b   Fominykh, Kseniya ^a   Yan, Zheng ^a   Guo, Song ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyu ^a   Taylor, Martin S ^c   Tang, Lin ^a,b   Li, Jie ^d   Liu, Jianmei ^d   Wang, Wen ^e   Yu, Haijing ^d   Khaitovich, Philipp ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 941; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; POLYMORPHISM; RNA; SIGNALING;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MICRORNAS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

AFRICA;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 84869485949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2146     Document Type: Article

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