Enhancers: Emerging roles in cell fate specification

EMBO Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 423-430

  Ong, Chin Tong ^a   Corces, Victor G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chromatin; differentiation; enhancer; epigenetics; histones

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BINDING SITE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HISTONES; HUMANS;

EID: 84860443136     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.52     Document Type: Review

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