High-resolution analysis of cis-acting regulatory networks at the α-globin locus

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1620, 2013, Pages

  Hughes, Jim R ^a   Lower, Karen M ^a   Dunham, Ian ^b   Taylor, Stephen ^a   De Gobbi, Marco ^a   Sloane Stanley, Jacqueline A ^a   McGowan, Simon ^a   Ragoussis, Jiannis ^c   Vernimmen, Douglas ^a   Gibbons, Richard J ^a   Higgs, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin conformation capture; cis regulatory elements; globin locus

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN ALPHA CHAIN; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME 16; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ALPHA-GLOBINS; BETA-GLOBINS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84877124067     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0361     Document Type: Article

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