Genomic regulatory blocks encompass multiple neighboring genes and maintain conserved synteny in vertebrates

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 545-555

  Kikuta, Hiroshi ^a   Laplante, Mary ^a   Navratilova, Pavla ^a   Komisarczuk, Anna Z ^a   Engström, Pär G ^a,b   Fredman, David ^a   Akalin, Altuna ^a   Caccamo, Mario ^c   Sealy, Ian ^c   Howe, Kerstin ^c   Ghislain, Julien ^d   Pezeron, Guillaume ^d   Mourrain, Philippe ^c   Ellingsen, Staale ^a   Oates, Andrew C ^e   Thisse, Christine ^f   Thisse, Bernard ^f   Foucher, Isabelle ^g   Adolf, Birgit ^h   Geling, Andrea ^h,i   Lenhard, Boris ^a   Becker, Thomas S ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^f INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^g INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^h INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

ⁱ Mischterlich and Partners   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FGF8 GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMICS; ID1 GENE; MAMMAL; MIRN9 1 GENE; MIRN9 5 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAX6 GENE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; RX3 GENE; SYNTENY; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); SYNTENY; TETRAODONTIFORMES; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34248153777     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6086307     Document Type: Article

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