Independent regulation of vertebral number and vertebral identity by microRNA-196 paralogs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 35, 2015, Pages E4884-E4893

  Wong, Siew Fen Lisa ^a   Agarwal, Vikram ^b,c,d   Mansfield, Jennifer H ^e,f   Denans, Nicolas ^g   Schwartz, Matthew G ^e   Prosser, Haydn M ^h   Pourquié, Olivier ^e,i   Bartel, David P ^b,c,d   Tabin, Clifford J ^e   McGlinn, Edwina ^a,e  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial patterning; Hox genes; microRNA; miR 196; Vertebral specification

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 196; NOTCH RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; MIRN196 MICRORNA, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; HOX GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THORAX; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINE;

ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS; SPINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84940979389     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512655112     Document Type: Article

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