MiRNAs and cancer: An epigenetics view

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 863-874

  Malumbres, Marcos ^a  

^a Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Epigenetics; Metastasis; microRNAs; Transcriptional gene silencing; Tumor development

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H3; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 15; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 16; MICRORNA 17; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 92; MICRORNA LET 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER GROWTH; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84878112868     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: 18729452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2012.06.005     Document Type: Review

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