Unique somatic and malignant expression patterns implicate PIWI-interacting RNAs in cancer-type specific biology

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Martinez, Victor D ^a   Vucic, Emily A ^a   Thu, Kelsie L ^a   Hubaux, Roland ^a   Enfield, Katey S S ^a   Pikor, Larissa A ^a   Becker Santos, Daiana D ^a   Brown, Carolyn J ^a,b   Lam, Stephen ^a   Lam, Wan L ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CANCER STAGING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOME, HUMAN; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RNA, NEOPLASM; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84934882993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10423     Document Type: Article

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