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SUBMITTER: Calin GA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC137750 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Calin George Adrian GA Dumitru Calin Dan CD Shimizu Masayoshi M Bichi Roberta R Zupo Simona S Noch Evan E Aldler Hansjuerg H Rattan Sashi S Keating Michael M Rai Kanti K Rassenti Laura L Kipps Thomas T Negrini Massimo M Bullrich Florencia F Croce Carlo M CM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20021114 24
Micro-RNAs (miR genes) are a large family of highly conserved noncoding genes thought to be involved in temporal and tissue-specific gene regulation. MiRs are transcribed as short hairpin precursors ( approximately 70 nt) and are processed into active 21- to 22-nt RNAs by Dicer, a ribonuclease that recognizes target mRNAs via base-pairing interactions. Here we show that miR15 and miR16 are located at chromosome 13q14, a region deleted in more than half of B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemias (B- ...[more]