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FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.793523
Keywords
miRNA; microRNA; target genes; seed sequences; SNPs; cancer; diabetes mellitus
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- ICMR
- Central University of Punjab
- CSIR
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miRNAs are important regulators in gene expression, with a single miRNA capable of controlling multiple target genes, and dysregulation may lead to various human diseases. SNPs in miRNA and their target sequences have been found to cause dysregulated gene expression and disease progression.
miRNAs are fascinating molecular players for gene regulation as individual miRNA can control multiple targets and a single target can be regulated by multiple miRNAs. Loss of miRNA regulated gene expression is often reported to be implicated in various human diseases like diabetes and cancer. Recently, geneticists across the world started reporting single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) in seed sequences of miRNAs. Similarly, SNPs are also reported in various target sequences of these miRNAs. Both the scenarios lead to dysregulated gene expression which may result in the progression of diseases. In the present paper, we explore SNPs in various miRNAs and their target sequences reported in various human cancers as well as diabetes. Similarly, we also present evidence of these mutations in various other human diseases.
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