Deciphering the transcriptional cis-regulatory code

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-22

  Yáñez Cuna, J Omar ^a   Kvon, Evgeny Z ^a   Stark, Alexander ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cis regulatory elements; Enhancers; Gene regulation; Regulatory code; Regulatory genomics; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; CIS REGULATORY CODE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84871693720     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2012.09.007     Document Type: Review

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