Preferential associations between co-regulated genes reveal a transcriptional interactome in erythroid cells

Nature Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-61

  Schoenfelder, Stefan ^a   Sexton, Tom ^a,d   Chakalova, Lyubomira ^a,d,e   Cope, Nathan F ^a   Horton, Alice ^a   Andrews, Simon ^a   Kurukuti, Sreenivasulu ^a,d,f   Mitchell, Jennifer A ^a,d,g   Umlauf, David ^a,d,h   Dimitrova, Daniela S ^a   Eskiw, Christopher H ^a   Luo, Yanquan ^b   Wei, Chia Lin ^b   Ruan, Yijun ^b   Bieker, James J ^c   Fraser, Peter ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^e MACEDONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Macedonia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h Department of Structural Biology and Genomics   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ERYTHROID CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLOBINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 73349090560     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.496     Document Type: Article

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