Role of non-coding sequence variants in cancer

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 93-108

  Khurana, Ekta ^a   Fu, Yao ^b   Chakravarty, Dimple ^a   Demichelis, Francesca ^a,c   Rubin, Mark A ^a   Gerstein, Mark ^d,e  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Bina Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMLINE MUTATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84955394114     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2015.17     Document Type: Review

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