Context-specific microRNA analysis: Identification of functional microRNAs and their mRNA targets

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 10614-10627

  Bossel Ben Moshe, Noa ^a   Avraham, Roi ^a   Kedmi, Merav ^a   Zeisel, Amit ^a   Yitzhaky, Assif ^a   Yarden, Yosef ^a   Domany, Eytan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA 212; MESSENGER RNA 22; MESSENGER RNA 31; MESSENGER RNA 320A; MESSENGER RNA 424; MESSENGER RNA 500; MESSENGER RNA 601; MESSENGER RNA 623; MESSENGER RNA 769; MESSENGER RNA 98; MICRORNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84870612323     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks841     Document Type: Article

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