Serum HOTAIR as a novel diagnostic biomarker for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Abstract Background Early diagnosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is an important issue to improve the prognosis. HOX transcript antisense RNA (HOTAIR), a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) expressed from the HOXC locus, has been recently revealed as an oncogenic regulator in ESCC. This stud...

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Main Authors: Wenjian Wang, Xiaotian He, Zehua Zheng, Xiaofan Ma, Xueting Hu, Duoguang Wu, Minghui Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:Molecular Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12943-017-0643-6