Microarray to deep sequencing: transcriptome and miRNA profiling to elucidate molecular pathways in systemic lupus erythematosus

Immunologic Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 14-24

  Rai, Geeta ^a   Rai, Richa ^a   Saeidian, Amir Hossein ^a   Rai, Madhukar ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Microarray; microRNA; RNA sequencing; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CX3CR1; CXCL2 CHEMOKINE; CXCL3 CHEMOKINE; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; CYTOKINE;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84955627567     PISSN: 0257277X     EISSN: 15590755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12026-015-8672-y     Document Type: Review

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