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Circular RNAs are depleted of polymorphisms at microRNA binding sites.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 15 Aug 2014
Thomas Laurent F, Sætrom Pål
Abstract excerpt
MOTIVATION: Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are an abundant class of highly stable RNAs that can affect gene regulation by binding and preventing microRNAs (miRNAs) from regulating their messenger RNA (mRNA) targets. Mammals have thousands of circRNAs with predicted miRNA binding sites, but only two circRNAs have been verified as being actual miRNA sponges. As it is unclear whether these thousands of predicted miRNA...
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