Integrated genome analysis suggests that most conserved non-coding sequences are regulatory factor binding sites

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 7858-7869

  Hemberg, Martin ^a   Gray, Jesse M ^b   Cloonan, Nicole ^c   Kuersten, Scott ^d   Grimmond, Sean ^c   Greenberg, Michael E ^b   Kreiman, Gabriel ^a,e  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE PCAF; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN CELL; CONSERVED ISLAND; CONSERVED NONCODING SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HELA CELL; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY FACTOR BINDING SITE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIBED REGION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; GENOME; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870570717     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks477     Document Type: Article

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