Genomic regulatory blocks in vertebrates and implications in human disease

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 333-342

  Navratilova, Pavla ^a   Becker, Thomas S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bystander gene; GWAS; Whole genome duplication

Indexed keywords

LIMB REGION 1 HOMOLOG; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN DACH1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOINFORMATICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DESERT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMB DEFORMITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POLYDACTYLY; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNTENY; TRANSGENICS; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DISEASE; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENOME; HUMANS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SYNTENY; VERTEBRATES;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349532764     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elp019     Document Type: Review

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