HOTAIR: A cancer-related long non-coding RNA

Neoplasma

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 379-391

  Cai, B ^a   Song, X Q ^a   Cai, J P ^b   Zhang, S ^a  

^a GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Radiology   (China)

Author keywords

Cancer; HOTAIR; HOX genes; LncRNA

Indexed keywords

CO REPRESSOR OF RE1 SILENCING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; LYSINE SPECIFIC DEMETHYLASE 1; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; EXON; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GLIOMA; HOMEOBOX; HOMEOBOX GENE; HOX TRANSCRIPT ANTISENSE RNA; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; METHYLATION; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NEOPLASM; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84904385428     PISSN: 00282685     EISSN: 13384317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4149/neo_2014_075     Document Type: Review

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