Circular chromosome conformation capture (4C) uncovers extensive networks of epigenetically regulated intra- and interchromosomal interactions

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1341-1347

  Zhao, Zhihu ^a   Tavoosidana, Gholamreza ^a   Sjölinder, Mikael ^a   Göndör, Anita ^a   Mariano, Piero ^a   Wang, Sha ^a   Kanduri, Chandrasekhar ^a   Lezcano, Magda ^a   Sandhu, Kuljeet Singh ^a   Singh, Umashankar ^a   Pant, Vinod ^a   Tiwari, Vijay ^a   Kurukuti, Sreenivasulu ^a   Ohlsson, Rolf ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA H19;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELL INTERACTION; CHROMOSOME; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME IMPRINTING; KARYOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; LIVER; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 33750203582     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1891     Document Type: Article

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