Control of vertebrate hox clusters by remote and global Cis-acting regulatory sequences

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 689, Issue , 2010, Pages 63-78

  Spitz, François ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; RETINOIC ACID;

ANTENNAPEDIA COMPLEX; BITHORAX COMPLEX; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMEOBOX; HOX GENE; HOXD COMPLEX; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRETINOIN;

EID: 77956638120     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6673-5_4     Document Type: Review

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