Experimental approaches for gene regulatory network construction: The chick as a model system

Genesis

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 296-310

  Streit, Andrea ^a   Tambalo, Monica ^a   Chen, Jingchen ^a   Grocott, Timothy ^a   Anwar, Maryam ^a   Sosinsky, Alona ^b   Stern, Claudio D ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conserved regulatory elements; Transcription factors; Transcriptome analysis

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CHICK; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA LIBRARY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; WORKFLOW;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS;

EID: 84878198708     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22359     Document Type: Review

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