A functional survey of the enhancer activity of conserved non-coding sequences from vertebrate Iroquois cluster gene deserts

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1061-1072

  De La Calle Mustienes, Elisa ^a   Feijóo, Cármen Gloria ^b,c   Manzanares, Miguel ^d   Tena, Juan J ^a   Rodríguez Seguel, Elisa ^a   Letizia, Annalisa ^e   Allende, Miguel L ^b   Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IROQUOIS GENE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 23744502709     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4004805     Document Type: Article

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