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SUBMITTER: Cekaite L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4872728 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cekaite Lina L Eide Peter W PW Lind Guro E GE Skotheim Rolf I RI Lothe Ragnhild A RA
Oncotarget 20160201 6
Gene expression is in part regulated by microRNAs (miRNAs). This review summarizes the current knowledge of miRNAs in colorectal cancer (CRC); their role as growth regulators, the mechanisms that regulate the miRNAs themselves and the potential of miRNAs as biomarkers. Although thousands of tissue samples and bodily fluids from CRC patients have been investigated for biomarker potential of miRNAs (>160 papers presented in a comprehensive tables), none single miRNA nor miRNA expression signatures ...[more]