REST: Transcriptional and epigenetic regulator

Epigenomics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-58

  Bithell, Angela ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chromatin; chromatin immunoprecipitation; CNS development and disease; epigenome; histone deacetylases; Huntington's disease; next generation sequencing; REST NRSF; transcriptome

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; REPRESSOR ELEMENT 1 SILENCING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EPIGENETICS; EPILEPSY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; ISCHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETT SYNDROME; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; ISCHEMIA; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETT SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79951930596     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.10.76     Document Type: Review

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