In silico identification of micrornas as candidate Colorectal cancer biomarkers
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2019
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Sage Journals
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The involvement of microRNA in cancers plays a significant role in their pathogenesis. Specific expressions of these non-coding RNAs also serve as biomarkers for early colorectal cancer diagnosis, but their laboratory/molecular identification is challenging and expensive. The aim of this study was to identify potential microRNAs for colorectal cancer diagnosis using in silico approach. Sequence similarity search was employed to obtain the candidate microRNA from the datasets, and three target prediction software were employed to determine their target genes. To determine the involvement of these microRNAs in colorectal cancer, the microRNA gene list obtained was used alongside with colorectal cancer expressed genes from gbCRC and CoReCG databases for gene intersection analysis. The involvement of these genes in the cancer subtype was further strengthened with the DAVID database
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Colorectal cancer, Diagnostics, Early detection, in silico analysis, microRNA
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Fadaka, A.O. et al. (2019). In silico identification of micrornas as candidate Colorectal cancer biomarkers. Tumor Biology, 41(11). 10.1177/1010428319883721