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    Micro ribonucleic acid (microRNA, miRNA, μRNA) are small, single-stranded, non-coding RNA molecules containing 21–23 nucleotides. Found in plants, animals...
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  • MicroRNA sequencing (miRNA-seq), a type of RNA-Seq, is the use of next-generation sequencing or massively parallel high-throughput DNA sequencing to sequence...
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  • The Let-7 microRNA precursor gives rise to let-7, a microRNA (miRNA) involved in control of stem-cell division and differentiation. let-7, short for "lethal-7"...
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  • expression. Anti-miR therapeutics inhibit specific microRNA targets. Animal models showed that modulating microRNAs through anti-miRs effectively regulates biological...
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    ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules, microRNA (miRNA) and small interfering RNA (siRNA), are central to components to the RNAi pathway. Once mRNA is degraded,...
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    RNAs such as microRNAs, siRNAs, piRNAs, snoRNAs, snRNAs, exRNAs, scaRNAs and the long ncRNAs such as Xist and HOTAIR. The number of non-coding RNAs within...
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    Farrell, Jr. RNA Methodologies, 5th Edition. Academic Press, 2017 Brennecke J, Stark A, Russell RB, Cohen SM (March 2005). "Principles of microRNA-target recognition"...
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    MicroRNA (miRNA) biosensors are analytical devices that involve interactions between the target miRNA strands and recognition element on a detection platform...
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    the sinuous extracellular matrix of the brain. As of 2012, RNA interference, usually microRNA, was under investigation in tissue culture, pathology specimens...
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    MicroRNA 4727 is a microRNA that in humans is produced by the MIR4727 gene. microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20–24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved...
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    MicroRNA 7-2 is a non-protein-coding gene product that in humans is encoded by the MIR7-2 gene. microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs...
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    by which lin-4, the first microRNA (miRNA) discovered by Victor Ambros, regulates the translation of target messenger RNAs via imperfect base-pairing...
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  • Oncomir (category RNA)
    oncomiR) is a microRNA (miRNA) that is associated with cancer. MicroRNAs are short RNA molecules about 22 nucleotides in length. Essentially, miRNAs specifically...
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  • This microRNA database and microRNA targets databases is a compilation of databases and web portals and servers used for microRNAs and their targets....
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    MicroRNA 548v is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MIR548V gene. microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in...
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  • body-specific RNA, by Dicer. This small RNA was found to function as a microRNA. Potential microRNAs were also identified in several other Human snoRNAs. Giardia...
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    are several specific microRNAs, when overexpressed, that directly reduce expression of specific DNA repair proteins (see MicroRNA section DNA repair and...
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    expression of microRNAs. In breast cancer, transcriptional repression of BRCA1 may occur more frequently by over-transcribed microRNA-182 than by hypermethylation...
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  • cancers (see DNA repair defect and cancer risk and microRNA and DNA repair). Altered microRNA (miRNA) expression that either decreases accurate DNA repair...
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  • MicroRNA 425 is a microRNA that in humans is encoded by the MIR425 gene. "Entrez Gene: MicroRNA 425". Retrieved 2018-10-11. Liang D, Meyer L, Chang DW...
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    MicroRNA 495 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MIR495 gene. microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in...
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    et al. (February 2013). "MicroRNA-182-5p targets a network of genes involved in DNA repair". RNA. 19 (2): 230–242. doi:10.1261/rna.034926.112. PMC 3543090...
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    MicroRNA 34a (miR-34a) is a microRNA that in humans is encoded by the MIR34A gene. microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20–24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved...
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  • competitive endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) act as molecular sponges for a microRNA through their miRNA binding sites (also referred to as miRNA response elements...
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    molecular biology in May 2017. He defended his thesis, "Discovery of mature microRNA sequences within the protein-coding regions of global HIV-1 genomes: predictions...
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    MicroRNA 196b is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MIR196B gene. microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in...
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    MicroRNA 4521 is a micro RNA that in humans is encoded by the MIR4521 gene. microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved...
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    transfer RNA (tRNA), microRNA (miRNA), small interfering RNA (siRNA), small nucleolar RNA (snoRNAs), Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA), tRNA-derived small RNA (tsRNA)...
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    MicroRNA 222 is a MicroRNA that in humans is encoded by the MIR222 gene, and is a known extracellular RNA (exRNA). microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24...
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  • mir-M7 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. MicroRNA Strassheim...
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