Individual LCR hypersensitive sites cooperate to generate an open chromatin domain spanning the human β-globin locus

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 415-429

  Li, Guolong ^a   Lim, Kim Chew ^a   Engel, James Douglas ^a   Bungert, Jörg ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENE DOSAGE; GLOBINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0031823463     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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