Promiscuity of enhancer, coding and non-coding transcription functions in ultraconserved elements

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Licastro, Danilo ^a   Gennarino, Vincenzo A ^b   Petrera, Francesca ^a   Sanges, Remo ^a   Banfi, Sandro ^b   Stupka, Elia ^c,d  

^a CBM scrl Genomics   (Italy)

^b TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ULTRACONSERVED ELEMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

MAMMALIA;

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77951891107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-151     Document Type: Article

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