Quantitative analysis of polycomb response elements (PREs) at identical genomic locations distinguishes contributions of PRE sequence and genomic environment

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Okulski, Helena ^a   Druck, Birgit ^a,b   Bhalerao, Sheetal ^a,c   Ringrose, Leonie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Clinical Operations   (Austria)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; FRONTABDOMINAL 7 GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLYCOMB RESPONSE ELEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VESTIGIAL GENE;

EID: 79952701283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17568935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-8935-4-4     Document Type: Article

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