In vivo enhancer analysis of human conserved non-coding sequences

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7118, 2006, Pages 499-502

  Pennacchio, Len A ^a,b   Ahituv, Nadav ^b   Moses, Alan M ^b   Prabhakar, Shyam ^b   Nobrega, Marcelo A ^b,e   Shoukry, Malak ^b   Minovitsky, Simon ^b   Dubchak, Inna ^a,b   Holt, Amy ^b   Lewis, Keith D ^b   Plajzer Frick, Ingrid ^b   Akiyama, Jennifer ^b   De Val, Sarah ^d   Afzal, Veena ^b   Black, Brian L ^d   Couronne, Olivier ^a,b   Eisen, Michael B ^b,c   Visel, Axel ^b   Rubin, Edward M ^a,b  

^a DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DATA REDUCTION; GENES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; NEUROLOGY;

GENE REGULATORY ELEMENTS; IN VIVO ENHANCER; NON CODING ELEMENTS; VERTEBRATE GENOMES;

DNA SEQUENCES;

DNA; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; GENOME; RODENT;

ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS MUSCULUS; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751316959     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05295     Document Type: Article

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