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The microcosmos of cancer

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  • Amaia Lujambio

    (Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC))

  • Scott W. Lowe

    (Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MSKCC)

Abstract

The discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) almost two decades ago established a new paradigm of gene regulation. During the past ten years these tiny non-coding RNAs have been linked to virtually all known physiological and pathological processes, including cancer. In the same way as certain key protein-coding genes, miRNAs can be deregulated in cancer, in which they can function as a group to mark differentiation states or individually as bona fide oncogenes or tumour suppressors. Importantly, miRNA biology can be harnessed experimentally to investigate cancer phenotypes or used therapeutically as a target for drugs or as the drug itself.

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  • Amaia Lujambio & Scott W. Lowe, 2012. "The microcosmos of cancer," Nature, Nature, vol. 482(7385), pages 347-355, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:482:y:2012:i:7385:d:10.1038_nature10888
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10888
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