Perspectives of long non-coding RNAs in cancer diagnostics

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Reis, Eduardo M ^a   Verjovski Almeida, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cancer; Diagnostics; Expression signature; Long non coding RNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871018923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00032     Document Type: Short Survey

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