PiRNA Biogenesis and Their Role in Human Cancers and Other Diseases: A Narrative Review
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) with the length of approximately 26-30 nucleotides are a distinct class of small non-coding RNAs that mainly expressed in the animal gonads. Other small RNAs originate from double stranded precursors but piRNAs derive from long single-stranded primary transcripts, whic...
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Language: | English |
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2021-11-01
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Series: | Iranian Journal of Public Health |
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Online Access: | https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/22602 |