MicroRNA profiling: approaches and considerations

CC Pritchard, HH Cheng, M Tewari - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate the expression of
thousands of genes in a broad range of organisms in both normal physiological contexts …

Genetic variation in microRNA networks: the implications for cancer research

BM Ryan, AI Robles, CC Harris - Nature reviews cancer, 2010 - nature.com
Many studies have highlighted the role that microRNAs have in physiological processes and
how their deregulation can lead to cancer. More recently, it has been proposed that the …

miRDeep2 accurately identifies known and hundreds of novel microRNA genes in seven animal clades

MR Friedländer, SD Mackowiak, N Li… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract microRNAs (miRNAs) are a large class of small non-coding RNAs which post-
transcriptionally regulate the expression of a large fraction of all animal genes and are …

tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs): emerging new roles for an ancient RNA in the regulation of gene expression

SP Keam, G Hutvagner - Life, 2015 - mdpi.com
This review will summarise the recent discoveries and current state of research on short
noncoding RNAs derived from tRNAs—known as tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs). It will …

Deep sequencing of small RNAs from human skin reveals major alterations in the psoriasis miRNAome

CE Joyce, X Zhou, J Xia, C Ryan… - Human molecular …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Psoriasis is a chronic and complex inflammatory skin disease with lesions displaying
dramatically altered mRNA expression profiles. However, much less is known about the …

Biogenesis of mammalian microRNAs by a non-canonical processing pathway

MA Havens, AA Reich, DM Duelli… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Canonical microRNA biogenesis requires the Microprocessor components, Drosha and
DGCR8, to generate precursor-miRNA, and Dicer to form mature miRNA. The …

The miRNA profile of human pancreatic islets and beta-cells and relationship to type 2 diabetes pathogenesis

M van de Bunt, KJ Gaulton, L Parts, I Moran… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Recent advances in the understanding of the genetics of type 2 diabetes (T2D) susceptibility
have focused attention on the regulation of transcriptional activity within the pancreatic beta …

The role of miR‐378a in metabolism, angiogenesis, and muscle biology

B Krist, U Florczyk… - International journal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
MicroRNA‐378a (miR‐378a, previously known as miR‐378) is one of the small noncoding
RNA molecules able to regulate gene expression at posttranscriptional level. Its two mature …

Whole-genome sequencing identifies a recurrent functional synonymous mutation in melanoma

JJ Gartner, SCJ Parker, TD Prickett… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Synonymous mutations, which do not alter the protein sequence, have been shown to affect
protein function [Sauna ZE, Kimchi-Sarfaty C (2011) Nat Rev Genet 12 (10): 683–691] …

Melanoma cell invasiveness is regulated by miR‐211 suppression of the BRN2 transcription factor

GM Boyle, SL Woods, VF Bonazzi… - Pigment cell & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
To identify microRNAs potentially involved in melanomagenesis, we compared microRNA
expression profiles between melanoma cell lines and cultured melanocytes. The most …