Orphan CpG Islands Identify numerous conserved promoters in the mammalian genome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Illingworth, Robert S ^a   Gruenewald Schneider, Ulrike ^a   Webb, Shaun ^a   Kerr, Alastair R W ^a   James, Keith D ^b   Turner, Daniel J ^b   Smith, Colin ^c   Harrison, David J ^c   Andrews, Robert ^b   Bird, Adrian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H3;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENOME; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YOUNG ADULT;

MAMMALIA; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78049419464     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001134     Document Type: Article

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