Memories of lost enhancers

Genes and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 973-979

  Sen, Ranjan ^a   Grosschedl, Rudolf ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD4; Chromatin; Epigenetics; Gene regulation; T cell development; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77952415942     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1930610     Document Type: Review

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