Enhancer function: New insights into the regulation of tissue-specific gene expression

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 283-293

  Ong, Chin Tong ^a   Corces, Victor G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; HISTONE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; ENZYME RELEASE; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II;

EID: 79952901680     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2957     Document Type: Review

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