Homotypic clusters of transcription factor binding sites are a key component of human promoters and enhancers

Genome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 565-577

  Gotea, Valer ^a   Visel, Axel ^b,c   Westlund, John M ^d   Nobrega, Marcelo A ^d   Pennacchio, Len A ^b,c   Ovcharenko, Ivan ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E1A ASSOCIATED P300 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDATION STUDY; ZEBRA FISH;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; TAKIFUGU; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77951874066     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.104471.109     Document Type: Article

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