Using context-specific effect of miRNAs to identify functional associations between miRNAs and gene signatures

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL12, 2013, Pages

  Alshalalfa, Mohammed ^a,b   Alhajj, Reda ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^c GLOBAL UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; DOWNSTREAM EFFECTS; FUNCTIONAL ASSOCIATIONS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; FUNCTIONAL SIGNATURES; MIRNA TARGET PREDICTIONS; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REGULATORY EFFECTS;

GENES; PROTEINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UROLOGY;

RNA;

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PROSTATE TUMOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84886814817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-S12-S1     Document Type: Article

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