Exploring the three-dimensional organization of genomes: Interpreting chromatin interaction data

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 390-403

  Dekker, Job ^a   Marti Renom, Marc A ^b,c   Mirny, Leonid A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Centre Nacional d'Analisi Genomica CNAG   (Spain)

^c CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

BIOLOGY; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POPULATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLOBIN GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENOME; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LAMINA; NUCLEOLUS; ONCOGENE MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84878011578     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3454     Document Type: Review

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