LINE-1 retrotransposons and let-7 miRNA: Partners in the pathogenesis of cancer?

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Ohms, Stephen ^a   Lee, Sung Hun ^a,b   Rangasamy, Danny ^a  

^a Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Gene modulation; Let 7 microRNA; Line 1; Long noncoding RNA; Retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

ANRIL LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; APTR LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; LET 7 MICRORNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALU SEQUENCE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; LINE 1 RETROPOSON; NONHUMAN; NOTE; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84917683573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00338     Document Type: Note

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