The regulatory effect of miRNAs is a heritable genetic trait in humans

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Geeleher, Paul ^a   Huang, Stephanie R ^b   Gamazon, Eric R ^b   Golden, Aaron ^c   Seoighe, Cathal ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSHA GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; INTRON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RATING SCALE; REGULATORY EFFECT SCORE; RNA ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPMAP PROJECT; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MICRORNAS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RIBONUCLEASE III;

EID: 84871569787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-383     Document Type: Article

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