Circles within circles: Commentary on Ghosal et al. (2013) "Circ2Traits: A comprehensive database for circular RNA potentially associated with disease and traits"

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Hancock, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Circular RNAs; Databases; Genetic; MicroRNAs; Parkinson disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917677302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00459     Document Type: Note

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