A Uniform System for the Annotation of Vertebrate microRNA Genes and the Evolution of the Human microRNAome

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 213-242

  Fromm, Bastian ^a   Billipp, Tyler ^b   Peck, Liam E ^c   Johansen, Morten ^a   Tarver, James E ^d,e   King, Benjamin L ^f   Newcomb, James M ^c   Sempere, Lorenzo F ^g   Flatmark, Kjersti ^a,h   Hovig, Eivind ^a,h   Peterson, Kevin J ^b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c New England College   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Genome duplication; MiRBase; MirGeneDB; MiRNA; Molecular evolution; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE NOMENCLATURE; GENE PRODUCT; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME; HUMAN; MICRORNA GENE; MIRGENEDB DATABASE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEOTIDE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOMENCLATURE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84948749911     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-120213-092023     Document Type: Article

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