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Trinity College details research in ovarian cancer.
Genomics & Genetics Weekly
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August 22, 2008
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"MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, noncoding RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression by binding to target mRNAs. miRNAs have not been comprehensively studied in recurrent ovarian cancer, yet an incurable disease. Using real-time RT-PCR, we obtained distinct miRNA expression profiles between primary and recurrent serous papillary ovarian adenocarcinomas (n = 6) in a subset of samples previously used in a transcriptome approach," investigators in Dublin, Ireland report (see also Ovarian Cancer).
"Expression levels of top dysregulated miRNA genes, miR-223 and miR-9, ...
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