Landscapes and archipelagos: Spatial organization of gene regulation in vertebrates

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 347-354

  Montavon, Thomas ^a,b   Duboule, Denis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chromatin loops; Enhancers; Genome organization; Long range regulation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA MODIFICATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862755561     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2012.04.003     Document Type: Review

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