Locus control regions, chromatin activation and transcription

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 361-365

  Fraser, Peter ^a   Grosveld, Frank ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; ENHANCER REGION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031861637     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(98)80012-4     Document Type: Article

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