Cis-regulatory elements: Molecular mechanisms and evolutionary processes underlying divergence

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-69

  Wittkopp, Patricia J ^a   Kalay, Gizem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CIS REGULATORY SEQUENCE; CONVERGENT PHENOTYPE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 83855163414     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3095     Document Type: Review

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