Clusters of microRNAs emerge by new hairpins in existing transcripts

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 7745-7752

  Marco, Antonio ^a   Ninova, Maria ^a   Ronshaugen, Matthew ^a   Griffiths Jones, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1; MICRORNA 10; MICRORNA 133; MICRORNA 137; MICRORNA 184; MICRORNA 193; MICRORNA 219; MICRORNA 252; MICRORNA 263A; MICRORNA 276A; MICRORNA 285; MICRORNA 31A; MICRORNA 33; MICRORNA 7; MICRORNA 8; MICRORNA 87; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MICRORNAS;

EID: 84880530293     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt534     Document Type: Article

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