The effect of distance on long-range chromatin interactions

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 131-139

  Dillon, Niall ^a,c   Trimbom, Tolleiv ^b   Strouboulis, John ^c,d   Fraser, Peter ^b   Grosveld, Frank ^b,c  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; CHROMATIN; COSMID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CHROMATIN; COSMIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLOBINS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS; OOCYTES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSGENES;

EID: 0031306463     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80014-3     Document Type: Article

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