Exploring the reasons for the large density of triplex-forming oligonucleotide target sequences in the human regulatory regions

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Goñi, Josep Ramon ^a   Vaquerizas, Juan Manuel ^b   Dopazo, Joaquin ^b   Orozco, Modesto ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33645787290     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-63     Document Type: Article

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