Vertebrate MicroRNA Genes
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an abundant class of �22-nucleotide (nt) noncoding RNAs, some of which are known to control the expression of other genes at the posttranscriptional level (1–4). We developed a computational procedure (MiRscan) to identify miRNA genes (5) and apply it here to identify most of the miRNA genes in vertebrates. MiRscan relies on the observation that the known miRNAs derive from phylogenetically conserved stem loop precursor RNAs with characteristic features. MiRscan evaluates conserved stem loops as miRNA precursors by passing a 21-nt window along each conserved stem loop, assigning a log-likelihood score
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This study validates the existence of computationally predicted miRNAs.
“and validates the existence of computationally predicted miRNAs [8]”
The estimated number of total miRNAs in vertebrates is ∼250 molecules.
“The estimated number of the total miRNAs in vertebrates is ∼250 molecules (Lim et al. 2003).”
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- Authors
- Lim, L. P., Glasner, M. E., Yekta, S., Burge, C. B., & Bartel, D. P.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2003-03-07
- Volume
- 299
- Issue
- 5612
- Pages
- 1540-1540
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
- 1095-9203
- Cited by
- 967
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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