DICER1: Mutations, microRNAs and mechanisms

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 662-672

  Foulkes, William D ^a   Priest, John R ^b   Duchaine, Thomas F ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b McGill University ^*  (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; DICER1; MICRORNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DICER1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RIBONUCLEASE III;

CANCER INCIDENCE; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84910004413     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3802     Document Type: Review

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