Nuclear organization of active and inactive chromatin domains uncovered by chromosome conformation capture-on-chip (4C)

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1348-1354

  Simonis, Marieke ^a   Klous, Petra ^a   Splinter, Erik ^a   Moshkin, Yuri ^a   Willemsen, Rob ^a   De Wit, Elzo ^b   Van Steensel, Bas ^b   De Laat, Wouter ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBULIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 8; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENT GENE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLOBINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LIVER; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750212321     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1896     Document Type: Article

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