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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Hanno Huwer
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-17681 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
BMC cancer 20091006
<h4>Background</h4>Deregulated miRNAs are found in cancer cells and recently in blood cells of cancer patients. Due to their inherent stability miRNAs may offer themselves for blood based tumor diagnosis. Here we addressed the question whether there is a sufficient number of miRNAs deregulated in blood cells of cancer patients to be able to distinguish between cancer patients and controls.<h4>Methods</h4>We synthesized 866 human miRNAs and miRNA star sequences as annotated in the Sanger miRBase ...[more]