Predicting tissue-specific enhancers in the human genome

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 201-211

  Pennacchio, Len A ^a,b   Loots, Gabriela G ^c   Nobrega, Marcelo A ^d   Ovcharenko, Ivan ^b,c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREGNANCY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846876333     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.5972507     Document Type: Article

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