The three 'C' s of chromosome conformation capture: Controls, controls, controls

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-21

  Dekker, Job ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONFORMATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CHROMOSOMES; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; GENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 31344477982     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth823     Document Type: Article

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