Dissecting the transcriptional regulatory properties of human chromosome 16 highly conserved Non-Coding regions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Royo, José Luis ^a   Hidalgo, Carmen ^a   Roncero, Yolanda ^a   SedaMarí, María Angeles ^a   Akalin, Altuna ^b   Lenhard, Boris ^b   Casares, Fernando ^a   Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME 16; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; EXOCRINE GLAND; EYE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HIGHLY CONSERVED NONCODING REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENICS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO;

DNA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; HUMANS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 80052781416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024824     Document Type: Article

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