Transcription factories: Genetic programming in three dimensions

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-114

  Edelman, Lucas Brandon ^a,b   Fraser, Peter ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CELL TYPE; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84860381359     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2012.01.010     Document Type: Review

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