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. 2010 Jun 4;1(5):419–421. doi: 10.1007/s13238-010-0056-4

Candidate Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes targeted by human microRNAs

WeiRui Guo 1,4, Jiong-Tang Li 2, Xiao Pan 1, Liping Wei 2,✉, Jane Y Wu 3,✉
PMCID: PMC4875133  PMID: 21203954

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Liping Wei, Email: jane-wu@northwestern.edu.

Jane Y. Wu, Email: weilp@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cn

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