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Pilot Study of Serum MicroRNA-21 as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker in Egyptian Breast Cancer Patients.
Molecular diagnosis & therapy - 1 Jun 2015
Toraih Eman A, Mohammed Eman A, Farrag Sherif, Ramsis Nevene, Hosny Somaya
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BACKGROUND: MicroRNAs are small RNA molecules that bind to complementary sequences of target messenger RNAs and down-regulate their translation to protein or degrade them. MicroRNAs play critical roles in many different cellular processes. Hence, aberrant microRNA expression is common in a variety of disorders, including cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In this work, we quantified serum microRNA-21 (miR-21)...
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