Beyond genomics: interpreting the 93% of the human genome that does not encode proteins

Muller Fabbri1, George A Calin

  • 1Ohio State University, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1060 Biomedical Research Tower, 460 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. muller.fabbri@osumc.edu

Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development
|May 6, 2010
PubMed

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