MiRNA Nomenclature: A View Incorporating Genetic Origins, Biosynthetic Pathways, and Sequence Variants

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 613-626

  Desvignes, T ^a   Batzel, P ^a   Berezikov, E ^b   Eilbeck, K ^c,d   Eppig, J T ^e   McAndrews, M S ^e   Singer, A ^a   Postlethwait, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

IsomiR; Loop origin miRNAs; MiRNA cluster; MiRNA seq; MoR; Noncoding RNA

Indexed keywords

DICER; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DICER1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; DROSHA PROTEIN, MOUSE; RIBONUCLEASE III; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOGENESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84946224850     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2015.09.002     Document Type: Review

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