Novel PAX6 binding sites in the human genome and the role of repetitive elements in the evolution of gene regulation

Genome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1716-1722

  Zhou, Yi Hong ^a   Zheng, Jessica B ^a   Gu, Xun ^b   Saunders, Grady F ^a   Alfred Yung, W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; GENOMIC DNA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA BINDING; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RODENT; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

ALU ELEMENTS; BINDING SITES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036852096     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.188302     Document Type: Article

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