Evolution of human-specific microRNA miR-941
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ORGANISM(S): Macaca mulatta
SUBMITTER: Song Guo
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-35621 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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Evolution of the human-specific microRNA miR-941.
Hu Hai Yang HY He Liu L Fominykh Kseniya K Yan Zheng Z Guo Song S Zhang Xiaoyu X Taylor Martin S MS Tang Lin L Li Jie J Liu Jianmei J Wang Wen W Yu Haijing H Khaitovich Philipp P
Nature communications 20120101
MicroRNA-mediated gene regulation is important in many physiological processes. Here we explore the roles of a microRNA, miR-941, in human evolution. We find that miR-941 emerged de novo in the human lineage, between six and one million years ago, from an evolutionarily volatile tandem repeat sequence. Its copy-number remains polymorphic in humans and shows a trend for decreasing copy-number with migration out of Africa. Emergence of miR-941 was accompanied by accelerated loss of miR-941-binding ...[more]
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