One step forward, two steps back; Xeno-MicroRNAs reported in breast milk are artifacts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Baʇci, Caner ^a   Allmer, Jens ^a,b  

^a IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b Bionia Incorporated   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREAST MILK; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FOOD; HUMAN; MEAT; NICOTIANA TABACUM; NONHUMAN; PIG; RICE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSPORT; SAMPLING ERROR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MILK, HUMAN; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 84958559200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145065     Document Type: Article

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