Discovery of active enhancers through bidirectional expression of short transcripts

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Melgar, Michael F ^a,b   Collins, Francis S ^a   Sethupathy, Praveen ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; HISTONE H3; CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ACETYLATION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN GENOME;

ACETYLATION; ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 81055126951     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-11-r113     Document Type: Article

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