Optimal choice of functional and off-target effect-reduced siRNAs for RNAi therapeutics

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Ui Tei, Kumiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 84883549528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00107     Document Type: Note

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