When needles look like hay: How to find tissue-specific enhancers in model organism genomes

Developmental Biology

Volumn 350, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-254

  Haeussler, Maximilian ^a   Joly, Jean Stéphane ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cis regulation; Cis regulatory element; Enhancers; Fish; Genome analysis; Medaka; Non coding elements; Transcriptional regulation; Transgenesis; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSITION EFFECT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; ORYZIINAE;

EID: 79151469568     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.11.026     Document Type: Review

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