Mapping association between long-range cis-regulatory regions and their target genes using synteny

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1115-1130

  Mongin, Emmanuel ^a   Dewar, Ken ^b   Blanchette, Mathieu ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution; genomic rearrangements; genomics; multiple alignment; phylogenetic analyses; regulatory regions

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHORDATA; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; HISTONES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SYNTENY;

CHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052612784     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2011.0088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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