Discovering functional impacts of miRNAs in cancers using a causal deep learning model

Abstract Background Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) play a significant role in regulating gene expression under physiological and pathological conditions such as cancers. However, it remains a challenging problem to discover the target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) of a miRNA in a data driven fashion. On one hand, seq...

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Main Authors: Lujia Chen, Xinghua Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12920-018-0432-0