Basic biology and therapeutic implications of lncRNA

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue , 2015, Pages 15-24

  Khorkova, O ^a   Hsiao, J ^a   Wahlestedt, C ^b  

^a OPKO Health Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AntagoNAT; Epigenetic regulation; Imprinting; LincRNA; Natural antisense transcripts; Paraspeckles; Telomeres; VlincRNA

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; MAMMALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

ANTAGONAT; ANTISENSE; EPIGENETIC REGULATION; IMPRINTING; LINCRNA; PARASPECKLES; TELOMERES; VLINCRNA;

BIOLOGY;

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOGENE; RARE DISEASE; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSPORT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOPLASMS; RNA PROCESSING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URINE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

EID: 84937252794     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: 18728294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2015.05.012     Document Type: Review

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