Enhancers: Five essential questions

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 288-295

  Pennacchio, Len A ^a   Bickmore, Wendy ^b   Dean, Ann ^c   Nobrega, Marcelo A ^d   Bejerano, Gill ^e  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBULIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR;

CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; ERYTHROID CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84875156063     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3458     Document Type: Review

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