3' UTR seed matches, but not overall identity, are associated with RNAi off-targets.
Birmingham A, Anderson EM, Reynolds A, Ilsley-Tyree D, Leake D, Fedorov Y, Baskerville S, Maksimova E, Robinson K, Karpilow J, Marshall WS, Khvorova A.
Birmingham A, et al. Among authors: anderson em.
Nat Methods. 2006 Mar;3(3):199-204. doi: 10.1038/nmeth854.
Nat Methods. 2006.
PMID: 16489337