Defining a genomic radius for long-range enhancer action: Duplicated conserved non-coding elements hold the key

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-10

  Vavouri, Tanya ^a,c   McEwen, Gayle K ^a,b   Woolfe, Adam ^a,c   Gilks, Walter R ^b   Elgar, Greg ^c  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; ONTOGENY; PARALOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOWNES BROCKS SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 29444452159     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.10.005     Document Type: Short Survey

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