Looping versus linking: Toward a model for long-distance gene activation

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2465-2477

  Bulger, Michael ^a   Groudine, Mark ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; DNA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0033215443     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.19.2465     Document Type: Article

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