Meta-coexpression conservation analysis of microarray data: A "subset" approach provides insight into brain-derived neurotrophic factor regulation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 420-

  Aid Pavlidis, Tamara ^a   Pavlidis, Pavlos ^b   Timmusk, Tõnis ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RATS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

RATTUS;

EID: 70349728631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-420     Document Type: Article

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