PIWI expression and function in cancer

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Suzuki, Ryusuke ^a   Honda, Shozo ^a   Kirino, Yohei ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AGO; Argonaute family proteins; Cancer; miRNA; Non coding RNAs; piRNA; PIWi; Small regulatory RNAs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876110299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00204     Document Type: Article

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