Identifying and characterizing regulatory sequences in the human genome with chromatin accessibility assays

Genes

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 651-670

  Sheffield, Nathan C ^a   Furey, Terrence S ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNaseI; ENCODE; Open chromatin; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; FORMALDEHYDE; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ACCESSIBILITY ASSAY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNASE I HYPERSENSITIVITY ASSAY; ENZYME ASSAY; FORMALDEHYDE ASSISTED ISOLATION OF REGULATORY ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; OPEN CHROMATIN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84871592810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes3040651     Document Type: Review

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