Exonic remnants of whole-genome duplication reveal cis-regulatory function of coding exons

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1071-1085

  Dong, Xianjun ^a   Navratilova, Pavla ^a   Fredman, David ^a,b   Drivenes, Øyvind ^a   Becker, Thomas S ^a,c   Lenhard, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EXON; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOMICS; MAMMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER REGION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; ZEBRA FISH;

MAMMALIA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 77950352433     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp1124     Document Type: Article

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