Competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs): New entrants to the intricacies of gene regulation

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Kartha, Reena V ^a   Subramanian, Subbaya ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing endogenous RNAs; MicroRNAs; MiRNAs ceRNAs; MREs; RNA RNA crosstalk; Sponge effect

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DYNAMICS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; PSEUDOGENE; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84893698705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00008     Document Type: Review

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