Dynamics of Regulatory Networks in the Developing Mouse Retina

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Hwang, Woochang ^a   Hackler, Laszlo ^a   Wu, George ^c   Ji, Hongkai ^c   Zack, Donald J ^a,b   Qian, Jiang ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATOR GENE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84867095364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046521     Document Type: Article

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