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. 2004 Mar 10;6(2):78–85. doi: 10.1186/ar1168

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The RNA interference pathway. Long double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) or small hairpin RNA (shRNA) is processed by Dicer to form a small interfering RNA (siRNA), which associates with RNA-induced silencing protein complex (RISC) and mediates target sequence specificity for subsequent mRNA cleavage. (See text for further details.)