Illuminating microRNA transcription from the epigenome

Current Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 68-77

  Sethupathy, Praveen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Complex disease; Epigenome; Genomics; microRNA; Nascent RNA; Promoter; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 29B;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOGENESIS; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COMPUTER MODEL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84888257054     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: 18755488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389202911314010008     Document Type: Article

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