Novel determinants of mammalian primary microRNA processing revealed by systematic evaluation of hairpin-containing transcripts and human genetic variation
Roden C, Gaillard J, Kanoria S, Rennie W, Barish S, Cheng J, Pan W, Liu J, Cotsapas C, Ding Y, Lu J. Novel determinants of mammalian primary microRNA processing revealed by systematic evaluation of hairpin-containing transcripts and human genetic variation. Genome Research 2017, 27: 374-384. PMID: 28087842, PMCID: PMC5340965, DOI: 10.1101/gr.208900.116.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPri-miRNA processingHuman genetic variationGenetic variationPrimary sequence motifsPrimary microRNA processingMiRNA biogenesisDisease-causing mutationsPrimary miRNAsPri-miRNAsSequence motifsMiRNA hairpinsMicroRNA processingMature microRNAsSequence featuresRNA hairpinsComputational pipelineNovel determinantStem lengthUnpaired basesHairpinTranscriptsStemBiogenesisGenomeMiRNAs