Mining of putative cis-acting elements for chromatin mediated regulation of hox genes in mammals by in-silico analysis

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 308, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 384-395

  Bengani, Hemant ^a   Ganapathi, Mythily ^a,c   Singh, Gajinder Pal ^b,c   Brahmachari, Vani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b G N Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics   (India)

^c CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; GENOME; GENOMICS; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; PAN TROGLODYTES;

MAMMALIA; PAN;

EID: 34547797329     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21162     Document Type: Article

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