A comprehensive catalog of human KRAB-associated zinc finger genes: Insights into the evolutionary history of a large family of transcriptional repressors

Genome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 669-677

  Huntley, Stuart ^a   Baggott, Daniel M ^a   Hamilton, Aaron T ^a   Tran Gyamfi, Mary ^a   Yang, Shan ^a   Kim, Joomyeong ^b   Gordon, Laurie ^a   Branscomb, Elbert ^a   Stubbs, Lisa ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; INTERNET; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTERNET; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 33745179207     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4842106     Document Type: Article

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