Piwi-interacting RNAs in cancer: Emerging functions and clinical utility

Molecular Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ng, Kevin W ^a   Anderson, Christine ^a   Marshall, Erin A ^a   Minatel, Brenda C ^a   Enfield, Katey S S ^a   Saprunoff, Heather L ^a   Lam, Wan L ^a   Martinez, Victor D ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epigenetics; Non coding RNA; PiRNA; PIWI; PIWI interacting RNA; Small RNA; Tissue specificity; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIGENETICS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PANCREAS CANCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84954148134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14764598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12943-016-0491-9     Document Type: Review

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