Locus control regions

Blood

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 3077-3086

  Li, Qiliang ^a   Peterson, Kenneth R ^b   Fang, Xiangdong ^c   Stamatoyannopoulos, George ^c,d  

^a Division of Medical Genetics   (United States)

^b Department of Genome Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; HISTONE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; SILENCER GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0036839549     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2002-04-1104     Document Type: Article

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