A novel reannotation strategy for dissecting DNA methylation patterns of human long intergenic non-coding RNAs in cancers

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 8258-8270

  Zhi, Hui ^a   Li, Xia ^a   Ning, Shangwei ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Li, Yuyun ^a   Wu, Wei ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL LINE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NEOPLASM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NEOPLASMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, NEOPLASM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84905589155     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku575     Document Type: Article

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