Comparative analysis of chromatin landscape in regulatory regions of human housekeeping and tissue specific genes

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ganapathi, Mythily ^a,b   Srivastava, Pragya ^b   Das Sutar, Sushanta Kumar ^b   Kumar, Kaushal ^b   Dasgupta, Dipayan ^b   Singh, Gajinder Pal ^b   Brahmachari, Vani ^a   Brahmachari, Samir K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; NUCLEOSOME FORMATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY REGIONS; TISSUE-SPECIFIC GENES;

GENES; TISSUE;

TRANSCRIPTION;

DNA; CHROMATIN; NUCLEOSOME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION; NUCLEOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EUKARYOTA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOSOMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 25444499171     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-126     Document Type: Article

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