ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Isoforms of miR-148a and miR-203a are putative suppressors of colorectal cancer

About authors

1 National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia

2 Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Correspondence should be addressed: Stepan A. Nersisyan
Vavilova, 7, Moscow, 117312, Russia; ur.esh@naysisrens

About paper

Funding: the study was supported by HSE Basic Research Program.

Acknowledgement: the author thanks Aleksey Galatenko of the HSE Laboratory of Molecular Physiology for the fruitful critique and valuable comments.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study complies with the ethical principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.

Received: 2022-04-29 Accepted: 2022-05-22 Published online: 2022-05-30
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