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An additional layer of RNA regulation in which RNAs encoded by genes and pseudogenes compete for microRNAs could offer new opportunities for oligonucleotide therapeutics.

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Figure 1: The miRNA balance in RNA regulatory networks.

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  1. Anastasia Khvorova is at RXi Pharmaceuticals, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.,

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  2. Alexey Wolfson is at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Khvorova, A., Wolfson, A. New competition in RNA regulation. Nat Biotechnol 30, 58–59 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2092

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