Pan-cancer transcriptome analysis reveals long noncoding RNAs with conserved function

RNA Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 628-642

  Cabanski, Christopher R ^a   White, Nicole M ^a   Dang, Ha X ^a   Silva Fisher, Jessica M ^a   Rauck, Corinne E ^a   Cicka, Danielle ^a   Maher, Christopher A ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cancer genomics; LncRNA; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; CCAT1 LONG NONCODING RNA, HUMAN; ONCO-LNCRNA-12, HUMAN; ONCO-LNCRNA-3, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CELL GROWTH; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CPG ISLAND; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CANCER; NEOPLASM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN CANCER; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RNA ANALYSIS; SOLID TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84944687965     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2015.1038012     Document Type: Article

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