Genomic strategies to identify mammalian regulatory sequences

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 100-109

  Pennacchio, Len A ^a   Rubin, Edward M ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0035261381     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35052548     Document Type: Review

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