Discovery and Characterization of Human Exonic Transcriptional Regulatory Elements

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Khan, Arshad H ^a   Lin, Andy ^a   Smith, Desmond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LUCIFERASE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR ALPHA; TUBULIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PPARA GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RORA GENE; SILENCER ELEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUBA1B GENE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUBULIN;

EID: 84866647263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046098     Document Type: Article

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