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  • noun genetics A group of microRNAs expressed from a single transcription unit

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poly- +‎ cistron

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Examples

  • Using a microRNA microarray, developed in collaboration with Scott Hammond at the University of North Carolina, He compared the expression of microRNAs-known as the mir-17-92 polycistron-suspected of playing a role in tumorigenesis in cancerous and normal cell lines.

    News from The Scientist Jef Akst 2010

  • "A microRNA polycistron as a potential human oncogene,"

    News from The Scientist Jef Akst 2010

  • Using a microRNA microarray, developed in collaboration with Scott Hammond at the University of North Carolina, He compared the expression of microRNAs-known as the mir-17-92 polycistron-suspected of playing a role in tumorigenesis in cancerous and normal cell lines.

    News from The Scientist Jef Akst 2010

  • "A microRNA polycistron as a potential human oncogene,"

    News from The Scientist Jef Akst 2010

  • "A microRNA polycistron as a potential human oncogene,"

    News from The Scientist Jef Akst 2010

  • Using a microRNA microarray, developed in collaboration with Scott Hammond at the University of North Carolina, He compared the expression of microRNAs-known as the mir-17-92 polycistron-suspected of playing a role in tumorigenesis in cancerous and normal cell lines.

    News from The Scientist Jef Akst 2010

  • B) was showed to exhibit the very same response speed-up to that observed in a negatively autoregulated polycistron

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Francisco M. Camas et al. 2008

  • When to present a hierarchical FFL or an autoregulated polycistron regulatory architecture could be related to the specific mechanisms of network evolution (see Resuming the analysis of the tendency of TFs to establish FFLs, beyond hierarchical FFLs (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Francisco M. Camas et al. 2008

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