Long non-coding RNAs: A potential novel class of cancer biomarkers

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Yarmishyn, Aliaksandr A ^a   Kurochkin, Igor V ^a  

^a BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Cancer; Long non coding RNA

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GROWTH ARREST SPECIFIC 5; HOX PROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MATERNALLY EXPRESSED GENE 3; MESSENGER RNA; METASTASIS ASSOCIATED LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA TRANSCRIPT 1; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 84927157577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00145     Document Type: Article

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