Genome-Wide and Species-Wide In Silico Screening for Intragenic MicroRNAs in Human, Mouse and Chicken

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Godnic, Irena ^a   Zorc, Minja ^a   Jevsinek Skok, Dasa ^a   Calin, George Adrian ^b   Horvat, Simon ^a,c   Dovc, Peter ^a   Kovac, Milena ^a   Kunej, Tanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CNOT3 GENE; COMPUTER MODEL; DGCR8 GENE; DICER1 GENE; DNA MODIFICATION; EIF4E GENE; GDCR8 GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SND1 GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TNR6B GENE; XPO5 GENE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84878770837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065165     Document Type: Article

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