MicroRNA and piRNA Profiles in Normal Human Testis Detected by Next Generation Sequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Qingling ^a   Hua, Juan ^a   Wang, Liu ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Zhang, Huan ^a   Ye, Nan ^b   Zhang, Zhiqiang ^b   Yu, Dexin ^b   Cooke, Howard J ^a,c   Zhang, Yuanwei ^a   Shi, Qinghua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 103A; MICRORNA 202; MICRORNA 34C; MICRORNA 508; MICRORNA 509 3; MICRORNA HT 0010; MICRORNA HT 0016; MICRORNA HT 0041; MICRORNA HT 0072; MICRORNA HT 0117; MICRORNA LET 7A; MICRORNA LET 7B; MICRORNA LET 7C; MICRORNA LET 7F; MICRORNA LET 7G; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 9; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TESTIS;

EID: 84879478555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066809     Document Type: Article

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