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    MicroRNA (miRNA) are small, single-stranded, non-coding RNA molecules containing 21 to 23 nucleotides. Found in plants, animals and some viruses, miRNAs...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • PMID 19765283. Thadani R, Tammi MT (December 2006). "MicroTar: predicting microRNA targets from RNA duplexes". BMC Bioinformatics. 7. 7 (Suppl 5): S20....
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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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    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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  • example is RNA interference (RNAi), in which endogenously expressed microRNA (miRNA) or exogenously derived small interfering RNA (siRNA) induces the...
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    encoding microRNA MicroRNA 106 MIR222: encoding microRNA MicroRNA 222 MIR223: encoding protein MicroRNA 223 MIR361: encoding microRNA MicroRNA 361 MIR503:...
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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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    generate novel microRNA loci was analyzed. It was found that genes which were predicted to possess V-SINEs were targeted by microRNAs with significantly...
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    suppression of RNA interference (RNAi)-related genes. Talaromyces marneffei dicer-dependent microRNA-like RNAs (milRNAs) were identified and these milRNAs were...
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  • levels. Using single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) fragments, such as microRNA (miRNA), or double-stranded small interfering RNA (siRNA), the complex functions as...
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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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    a number of specific microRNAs, when overexpressed, that directly reduce expression of specific DNA repair proteins (see MicroRNA section DNA repair and...
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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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  • used in many or all forensic labs. RSID Karl Landsteiner Paul Uhlenhuth microRNA Loop-mediated isothermal amplification Criminal Investigation by Ronald...
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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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    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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    ncRNAs from small non-coding RNAs, such as microRNAs (miRNAs), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs)...
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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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    Dicer (category MicroRNA)
    double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and pre-microRNA (pre-miRNA) into short double-stranded RNA fragments called small interfering RNA and microRNA, respectively...
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  • in general mRNA decay, nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, adenylate-uridylate-rich element mediated mRNA decay, and microRNA (miRNA) induced mRNA silencing....
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    Han J, Yeom KH, Lee S, Baek SH, Kim VN (October 2004). "MicroRNA genes are transcribed by RNA polymerase II". The EMBO Journal. 23 (20): 4051–4060. doi:10...
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    the gene. RNA can be an important regulator of gene activity, e.g. by microRNA (miRNA), antisense-RNA, or long non-coding RNA (lncRNA). LncRNAs differ from...
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    an American developmental biologist who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School...
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    method of reducing the nonspecific effects is to convert the siRNA into a microRNA. MicroRNAs occur naturally, and by harnessing this endogenous pathway it...
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  • interfering RNA (siRNA) and micro RNA (miRNA) to prevent mRNA translation and/or degrade mRNA. However, RNA aptamers are short, single stranded RNA molecules...
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